Some Covid-19 thoughts by captaincrunch

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The Evidence of Trump’s Pandemic Sabotage Keeps Piling Up

Trump didn’t personally kill the 600,000 Americans who have died from COVID-19. But he achieved that result in every way he could: by downplaying the threat, opposing efforts to track and control the virus, deriding masks, and launching political attacks on governors who tried to save lives. By orders of magnitude, it’s the most lethal betrayal of American citizens by their own president. The carnage would have been even worse, according to the authors, had it not been for “enormous efforts made to prevent Trump from acting on his worst instincts.” The more we learn, the worse the story gets.

More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/trump-covid-pandemic-sabot
age-evidence.html

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Wednesday, June 23, 2021 3:50 PM

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153 Houston Methodist Hospital employees were officially out of a job Tuesday, 10 days after a judge dismissed a lawsuit against the hospital by employees who opposed a Covid-19 vaccine mandate as a condition of employment.

Workers are protected from termination under Texas law only if they refuse to commit a criminal act that carries criminal penalties.

www.cnn.com/2021/06/22/us/houston-methodist-employees-covid-vaccine-re
sign-fired/index.html

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Wednesday, June 23, 2021 11:28 PM

Old news.

It will be appealed. They'll will sue the hospital.

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Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality.

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Wednesday, June 23, 2021 11:29 PM

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Friday, June 25, 2021 9:33 AM

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Inside the extraordinary effort to save Trump from covid-19

His illness was more severe than the White House acknowledged at the time. Advisers thought it would alter his response to the pandemic. They were wrong.

FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn received a request from a top White House official for a case with great urgency: Could he get the FDA to sign off on a compassionate-use authorization for a monoclonal antibody right away?

The White House wanted Hahn to say yes within hours. Hahn, who did not know who the application was for, consulted career officials. The FDA needs to go by the book, the officials insisted. Hahn relayed the message back to the White House. They kept pressing him to effectively cut corners.

When Hahn learned the effort was on behalf of the president, he was stunned. For God’s sake, it’s the president who’s sick, and you want us to bend the rules? Trump was in the highest-risk category for severe disease from covid-19 — at 74, he rarely exercised and was considered medically obese. He was the type of patient with whom you would want to be cautious before prescribing an experimental drug.

A five-day stretch, October 1 - 5, 2020 — from the moment White House officials began an extraordinary effort to get Trump lifesaving drugs to the day the president returned to the White House from the hospital — marked a dramatic turning point in the nation’s flailing coronavirus response. Trump’s brush with severe illness and the prospect of death caught the White House so unprepared that they had not even briefed Vice President Mike Pence’s team on a plan to swear him in if Trump became incapacitated.

The president had flouted safety protocols by holding big rallies and packing the White House with maskless guests. One month before the November 3rd election, the virus had already killed more than 200,000 Americans. Trump’s contempt for face coverings had turned into White House policy. He asked aides who wore them in his presence to take them off. If someone was going to do a news conference with him, he made clear that he or she was not to wear a mask by his side.

Trump’s medical advisers hoped his bout with the coronavirus would inspire him to take the virus seriously. Perhaps he would encourage Americans to wear masks and put his health and medical officials front and center in the response. Instead, Trump emerged from the experience triumphant and ever more defiant. He urged people not to be afraid of the virus or let it dominate their lives, disregarding that he had had access to health care and treatments unavailable to other Americans.

It was, several advisers said, the last chance to turn the response around. And once the opportunity passed, it was the point of no return.

More at www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/24/nightmare-scenario-book-exc
erpt/

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Monday, June 28, 2021 9:16 AM

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"China lied and Americans died." With those words, Elise Stefanik, the number three Republican in the House of Representatives, showed her party's plan to put the origins of the pandemic at the center of next year's midterm elections.

While Trump's team did vital work in funding vaccine development, the question of how Covid-19 started hardly explains away why he denied, downplayed and politicized the virus once it reached US shores.

"House Republicans want justice for the American people, we want transparency for the American people and accountability for the American people for the more than 600,000 Americans who lost their lives," said Stefanik. By piling the blame for every aspect of the disaster on China, the GOP is clearly seeking to whitewash the ex-President's disastrous mishandling of the crisis.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/27/world/meanwhile-in-america-june-25-intl
/index.html

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Monday, June 28, 2021 9:49 AM

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"China lied and Americans died." With those words, Elise Stefanik, the number three Republican in the House of Representatives, showed her party's plan to put the origins of the pandemic at the center of next year's midterm elections.

While Trump's team did vital work in funding vaccine development, the question of how Covid-19 started hardly explains away why he denied, downplayed and politicized the virus once it reached US shores.

"House Republicans want justice for the American people, we want transparency for the American people and accountability for the American people for the more than 600,000 Americans who lost their lives," said Stefanik. By piling the blame for every aspect of the disaster on China, the GOP is clearly seeking to whitewash the ex-President's disastrous mishandling of the crisis.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/27/world/meanwhile-in-america-june-25-intl
/index.html

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Fuck you CNN.

You lied about the origin of the virus for a year along with all of the other Leftist shill media, and people were being banned off of social media just for saying it.

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Monday, June 28, 2021 10:12 AM

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Fuck you CNN.

You lied about the origin of the virus for a year along with all of the other Leftist shill media, and people were being banned off of social media just for saying it.

Trump wouldn't wear a mask because CNN reported about masks. To keep Trump alive, the Federal government paid millions of dollars. Then Trump still didn't wear a mask after leaving the hospital because CNN reported that he was sick. Trump blamed China because he didn't want to take the blame for not wearing a mask. Trump is crazy and stupid, but so are all the Texans I know who voted for him, with the exception of rich Texans, who voted for him because he doesn't pay tax and neither do they.

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Monday, June 28, 2021 10:16 AM

China released it. With our help.

FACT

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Monday, June 28, 2021 10:30 AM

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China released it. With our help.

FACT

FACT: America has 619,424 dead. China has 4,636 dead. Taiwan 635 dead. Hong Kong 211 dead. Macao 0 dead. Plus China did not shutdown their economy while America did because 619,424 dead, all thanks to Trump not wearing a mask because CNN reported on masks. Trump is stupid and crazy. 6ix, you say the deaths are 0, but you are crazier and stupider than Trump.

www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

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Monday, June 28, 2021 10:55 AM

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China released it. With our help.

FACT
FACT: America has 619,424 dead. China has 4,636 dead. Taiwan 635 dead. Hong Kong 211 dead. Macao 0 dead. Plus China did not shutdown their economy while America did because 619,424 dead, all thanks to Trump not wearing a mask because CNN reported on masks. Trump is stupid and crazy. 6ix, you say the deaths are 0, but you are crazier and stupider than Trump.

www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

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If you believe those Chinese numbers AND believe the US numbers, you're the dumbest MF I've ever met.

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Monday, June 28, 2021 12:14 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
China released it. With our help.

FACT
FACT: America has 619,424 dead. China has 4,636 dead. Taiwan 635 dead. Hong Kong 211 dead. Macao 0 dead. Plus China did not shutdown their economy while America did because 619,424 dead, all thanks to Trump not wearing a mask because CNN reported on masks. Trump is stupid and crazy. 6ix, you say the deaths are 0, but you are crazier and stupider than Trump.

www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

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If you believe those Chinese numbers AND believe the US numbers, you're the dumbest MF I've ever met.

Taiwan's number is real and 635 dead Chinese. Multiply that by 14 to scale up Taiwan to same level as America's population to get 8,890 dead. Compared to 619,424 American dead, Taiwan appears to have worn their face masks when Americans did not because Trump told them to not wear masks.

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Monday, June 28, 2021 5:19 PM

Taiwan didn't have political and financial motivation to lie about the numbers like they did in the US.

The numbers in both the US and China are completely fake for very different reasons was my point.

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Tuesday, June 29, 2021 11:01 AM

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Taiwan didn't have political and financial motivation to lie about the numbers like they did in the US.

The numbers in both the US and China are completely fake for very different reasons was my point.

Are you claiming that America has a death rate 100 times higher than Taiwan because of what? Money? That the American death rate is fake in order to make more money? It is not money. It's masks. I cannot for the life of me understand how masks have become the tyranny of control. The other day I saw a post that basically said bulletproof backpacks, armed officers and metal detectors at schools are the cost of freedom but wearing a mask is the unbearable breaking point of tyranny.

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Tuesday, June 29, 2021 11:28 AM

It's money. It's always money.

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021 8:22 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Taiwan didn't have political and financial motivation to lie about the numbers like they did in the US.

The numbers in both the US and China are completely fake for very different reasons was my point.

COVID spiked Texas deaths

Considering that the pandemic reached Texas in March, deaths over the next 12 months jumped 32 percent over the previous year.

Deaths in Texas historically are cyclical, explained Mark Hayward, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin who studies mortality trends. They peak in winter with the annual flu season and ebb in summer, and steadily increase overall as the state’s population grows.

During the pandemic, however, that pattern was disrupted by a surge in mortality with no precedent in modern history. Hayward said that will lead to a decreased life expectancy for Texans; a British study published this week found the average lifetime of Americans decreased by almost two years in 2020.

“You don’t lose two or three years of life expectancy without actual catastrophe happening,” Hayward said. “Modern populations don’t go through that. In any kind of normal year, there’s never that kind of impact on a population’s mortality such as we’ve seen from COVID.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20210630121551/https://www.houstonchronicl
e.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/The-impact-of-COVID-19-on-Texas-deaths-in-one-16275226.php

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021 8:50 AM

Yup. A lot of suicides, overdoses and murders in the last year for sure.

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021 9:40 AM

"When this pandemic started, they already had a pandemic ready to go."

OK, "Dr." Jill...

Is your husband's pudding brain contagious or something? You should have been wearing a mask indoors too.

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021 9:55 AM

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Yup. A lot of suicides, overdoses and murders in the last year for sure.

Why not claim that murders, suicides and overdoses were caused by the "shutdown" since that absolves Trump for not wearing a mask? In Taiwan, where the President did wear a mask, there was no shutdown in 2020 and the death rate was one hundredth of Trump's. It really makes a difference who is telling people how to handle a pandemic and he is NOT wearing a mask.

Donald Trump claims ‘total authority’ in fiery coronavirus press conference

www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57135647

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021 10:11 AM

Nobody died of covid, so the fact that Trump didn't wear a mask is moot.

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021 10:22 AM

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Nobody died of covid, so the fact that Trump didn't wear a mask is moot.

Trump never said "nobody died of covid". Why would you?

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021 9:13 PM

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Nobody died of covid, so the fact that Trump didn't wear a mask is moot.
Trump never said "nobody died of covid". Why would you?

Because I don't get my marching orders from Trump.

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021 11:58 PM

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Because I don't get my marching orders from Trump.

No Trumptards I know have self control so why would I believe you are in control of yourself and unmoved by Trump?

"I like the numbers being where they are. I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship" -- Trump explains that he doesn't want to let people off the Grand Princess cruise ship because he doesn't want the number of coronavirus cases in the country to go up.

According to "Nightmare Scenario" Trump was so upset by the idea that these people would "double his numbers" that he asked his staff if there wasn't "an island we own" that we could send them to and he asked more than once about the possibility of sending them to Guantánamo. The staff finally got the idea scuttled but because they were all just as shallow and self-serving as he was, they did it not because it was grotesquely inhumane but because they were "worried about a backlash over quarantining American tourists on the same Caribbean base where the United States holds terrorism suspects." They had a point. Sending sick old people to a terrorist prison camp is pretty bad optics.

The "numbers" continued to anger Trump. He demanded that the officials who allowed the cruise passengers into the US be fired (it didn't happen) and when he said at his infamous Tulsa Oklahoma rally back in June of 2020, "when you do testing to that extent, you're gonna find more cases. So I said to my people, slow the testing down please" — he was not joking. The book quotes Trump having a tantrum over the phone to Health and Human Services Director Alex Azar, saying "Testing is killing me! I'm going to lose the election because of testing! What idiot had the federal government do testing?" (Azar replied, hilariously, "Uh, do you mean Jared?")

This response was a trainwreck in every way, mostly because of Trump's ignorance which made his decisions erratic and ineffectual, which I suspect also led to the magical thinking that had him demanding that everyone be a cheerleader and if you just tell people that everything is fine, it will be. He's quoted as saying to his team, "I am sick and tired of how negative you all are. .?.?. I spend half of my day responding to what Tony Fauci has to say, and I'm the president of the United States!" He told Dr. Deborah Birx, "Every time you talk, I get depressed. You have to stop that."

More at www.salon.com/2021/06/30/american-carnage-what-we-are-now-learning-abo
ut-trumps-nightmarish-mishandling-of-covid/

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Thursday, July 1, 2021 8:10 AM

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Because I don't get my marching orders from Trump.
No Trumptards I know have self control so why would I believe you are in control of yourself and unmoved by Trump?

Why do you think that I care what you think?

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Thursday, July 1, 2021 1:46 PM

rezident owtsidr

2 weeks sins my 2nd shot, so I am prezumably protected.

Made a new CoR GWo avatar wearing the CoRMR without the helmet.

Cant seem to get it to stick!

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The real pandemic solution: http://uvpk.net/

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Thursday, July 1, 2021 8:16 PM

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Because I don't get my marching orders from Trump.
No Trumptards I know have self control so why would I believe you are in control of yourself and unmoved by Trump?

Why do you think that I care what you think?

I heard that a lot from Trumptards and then I don't hear anything at all because they died in their mid-fifties. They lived longer than I would have expected so they must have been doing something right.

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Pandemic contradictions: a sign of false information

June 30, 2021

By Kristen Panthagani, PhD

One of the reasons false information and pandemic rumors can be so confusing and exhausting is the high degree of self-contradiction. Granted, not everyone believes every rumor simultaneously, but overall self-contradiction is often a hallmark of inaccurate information, and exposure to many different self-contradicting narratives (often with lots of emotion attached to them) can be highly disorienting and confusing. Here are a few examples I’ve run into over the last year:

“Spike protein shedding from vaccination makes it dangerous to be around vaccinated people” and “spike protein shedding from COVID infection is no big deal and there’s no need to social distance or wear a mask.”

“SARS-CoV-2 is not that dangerous” and “SARS-COV-2 is so good at making humans sick that it was clearly engineered.”

“A ~1% death rate from COVID is not a big deal” and “an extremely rare (<0.001%) nonfatal side effect from a vaccine is a very big deal.”

“If a 75-year-old with pre-existing conditions gets COVID and dies from pneumonia 4 days later, COVID was not the true cause” and “if a 75-year-old with pre-existing conditions gets the vaccine and dies from pneumonia 4 days later, the vaccine was definitely the true cause.”

“Most COVID cases are false positives” and “the case fatality rate is overestimated.” (If there were, in fact, fewer true COVID cases due to false positives, that would make the case fatality rate much higher.)

“Saying that ‘COVID is dangerous’ is fear-mongering” and “saying that ‘there is a massive network of elites who are secretly conspiring to take over the world by introducing a genetically engineered virus and forced vaccination with microchips’ is not fear-mongering.”

“The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is dangerous” and “SARS-CoV-2 is not dangerous.”

“Foreign, non-replicating RNA from the vaccine inside human cells is dangerous” and “foreign, self-replicating RNA from the virus inside human cells is not a big deal.”

“Immune systems are naturally strong; they can handle the virus without help from the vaccine” and “immune systems can’t handle masks.”

“An observational study of ~30 people is enough to justify giving hydroxychloroquine for COVID” and “A randomized, blinded placebo-controlled trial of ~30,000 people is not large enough to justify giving the vaccine.”

“COVID isn’t real” and “COVID is a bioweapon.”

If you’ve felt like your brain has been in a fog trying to sort through all the COVID information out there, this may be part of the reason why. Self-contradicting narratives can create a swirl of confusion that makes it hard to know what is what. Hopefully seeing some of these contradictions clearly laid out makes it easier to see how these rumors don’t hold up.

If you’d like more information on some of the statements above, here are some explanations that go into the detail of the science behind them:
https://youcanknowthings.com/2021/06/30/pandemic-contradictions-a-sign
-of-false-information/

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Thursday, July 1, 2021 9:59 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Because I don't get my marching orders from Trump.
No Trumptards I know have self control so why would I believe you are in control of yourself and unmoved by Trump?

Why do you think that I care what you think?
I heard that a lot from Trumptards and then I don't hear anything at all because they died in their mid-fifties. They lived longer than I would have expected so they must have been doing something right.

Nobody in the world gives two shits about how you think they should live their lives, buddy.

And nobody here believes anything you have to say about your own either.

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Friday, July 2, 2021 7:16 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Nobody in the world gives two shits about how you think they should live their lives, buddy.

And nobody here believes anything you have to say about your own either.

When you die young, 6ix, you will have proved I am right about your lifelong lack of sufficient caution.

Life Expectancy Tables
www.annuityadvantage.com/resources/life-expectancy-tables/

What is the life expectancy of a a 40 year old white male?
www.google.com/search?q=what+is+the+life+expectancy+of+a+40+year+old+w
hite+male%3F

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Friday, July 2, 2021 8:24 AM

Don't care.

And since all we know about you is your lies, we have no idea all the bad decisions you make besides lying all the time.

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Friday, July 2, 2021 11:35 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Don't care.

And since all we know about you is your lies, we have no idea all the bad decisions you make besides lying all the time.

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And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.

Just wanted to highlight that for SECONDRATE.

You see SECONDRATE? Everyone knows you're a liar. Maybe YOU should wake up to the fact that you lie all the time, too. Except that requires too much honesty.

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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

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Monday, July 5, 2021 10:26 AM

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/07/04/fauci_go_the_extra_
mile_and_wear_a_mask_even_if_youre_vaccinated.html

Fuck you. Wear two.

Time for you to get the fuck out of Dodge while the gettin's good, Fauci.

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And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.

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Monday, July 5, 2021 10:30 AM

I like this comment to the above article:

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Rumor has it that the Cardinal Fauci has taken his WHO kickback and invested in blindfolds and will declare the new variant is spread by light waves. It will be hilarious watching the government worshippers wandering around running into things.

Would be nice if they birdboxed themselves. Then we'd get to see the literal blindfolds on their faces instead of only finding out about the figurative ones they wear after they bring up politics.

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And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.

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Monday, July 5, 2021 10:47 AM

THG

Mostly Unnecessary Deaths

610,948

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Monday, July 5, 2021 10:11 PM

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Mostly Unnecessary Deaths

610,948

LIE.

This kid died because of your vaccine.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/07/04/saginaw-county-m
ichigan-jacob-clynick-pfizer-covid-vaccine/7858478002/

Stop using human beings as test subjects. Especially kids who have zero point zero chance of dying of anything even if they get Covid.

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And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.

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Tuesday, July 6, 2021 6:47 AM

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2 to 4 weeks until a likely major “Delta” outbreak in unvaccinated regions

Missouri has been the US bellwether for the onset of the “Delta” variant of COVID. Which makes the below graph by Charles Gaba of infection rates by county for June in Missouri particularly insightful:

As has been usual, partisanship, which has correlated highly with vaccinations, in turn also has a strong relationship with the rate of new infections. But more importantly, note just how high an infection level some of the least vaccinated counties have had in June. Many of them are over 0.5% of population newly infected in June, and a few are over 1% - this with “Delta” just getting underway.

If Missouri’s rate continues to rise (and, as we’ll see below, there is every reason to expect that to happen), then COVID is going to burn through Missouri’s (and other similarly situated States’) population in the next few months like a forest fire exploding uphill.

More at http://bonddad.blogspot.com/2021/06/coronavirus-dashboard-for-june-30-
2-to.html

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Tuesday, July 6, 2021 7:41 AM

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How political polarization broke America’s vaccine campaign

The US’s partisan divides have left much of the country vulnerable to Covid-19 — leading to unnecessary deaths.

The Covid-19 epidemic in the United States risks becoming a tale of “two Americas,” as Anthony Fauci warned in June: a nation where regions with higher vaccination rates are able to beat back the coronavirus while those with lower vaccination rates continue to see cases and deaths.

At face value, it’s a division between those who are vaccinated and those who are unvaccinated. But, increasingly, it’s also a division between Democrats and Republicans — as vaccination has ended up on one of the biggest dividing lines in the US, political polarization.

Polarization, of course, is not a new force in American life. Growing polarization doesn’t just mean a Congress more starkly dividing between left and right; it means people’s political views now closely hew with views on seemingly unrelated issues, like which movies should win Oscars. But throughout the pandemic, polarization has manifested as stark differences in how Democrats and Republicans each approach Covid-19, from hand-washing to social distancing to masking.

That polarization has now opened political rifts in vaccination rates, with people’s decision to get a shot or not today a better predictor of electoral outcomes than their votes in prior elections.

More at www.vox.com/2021/7/6/22554198/political-polarization-vaccine-covid-19-
coronavirus

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Tuesday, July 6, 2021 7:54 AM

rezident owtsidr

Proving that its all a Dem plot to kill off GoP voterz!

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The real pandemic solution: http://uvpk.net/

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Tuesday, July 6, 2021 8:33 AM

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Originally posted by second:
2 to 4 weeks until a likely major “Delta” outbreak in unvaccinated regions

GASP! FEAR!

Biden* had better hope not. He threatened us.

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Tuesday, July 6, 2021 9:33 AM

THG

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Originally posted by JO753:

Proving that its all a Dem plot to kill off GoP voterz!

I only feel bad for those who still haven't had access too, but want the vaccine JO. That would be because of the local government’s failure to provide it. Mostly in republican states I'm thinking. Then for children whose parents made the decission not to get it for them. Or for those who can't due to probable adverse biological effects. Sorry for that.

For all those adults who are simply choosing not to get it; fuck'em, here it comes! And if this variant doesn’t get them, one of the different variations that is now developing in someone else who refuses to get the vaccine, or poor third world people who can't get the vaccine yet, will. Especially if continuing protection from covid requires additional booster vaccine shots and natural immunities in those who've gotten the virus doesn't last.

T

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Tuesday, July 6, 2021 9:52 AM

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Originally posted by THG:
Quote:
Originally posted by JO753:

Proving that its all a Dem plot to kill off GoP voterz!

I only feel bad for those who still haven't had access too, but want the vaccine JO. That would be because of the local government’s failure to provide it. Mostly in republican states I'm thinking. Then for children whose parents made the decission not to get it for them. Or for those who can't due to probable adverse biological effects. Sorry for that.

For all those adults who are simply choosing not to get it; fuck'em, here it comes! And if this variant doesn’t get them, one of the different variations that is now developing in someone else who refuses to get the vaccine, or poor third world people who can't get the vaccine yet, will. Especially if continuing protection from covid requires additional booster vaccine shots and natural immunities in those who've gotten it don't last.

T

Americans have always exercised their rights to commit suicide with tobacco. Vaccines are just another way to legally kill themselves.

Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day. On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers.
www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/index.htm

Chewing Tobacco Kills More Than 250,000 Yearly
www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20150902/chewing-tobacco-kills-mo
re-than-250000-people-each-year-report

Since Americans will kill themselves one way or another, I make money by owning tobacco company stocks: Best Tobacco Stocks & Companies in 2021
www.fool.com/investing/stock-market/market-sectors/consumer-staples/to
bacco-stocks/

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Tuesday, July 6, 2021 8:12 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Quote:
Originally posted by JO753:

Proving that its all a Dem plot to kill off GoP voterz!

I only feel bad for those who still haven't had access too, but want the vaccine JO. That would be because of the local government’s failure to provide it. Mostly in republican states I'm thinking.

Incorrect. You're an idiot, Ted.

ANYBODY in the country can get one tomorrow. Most states are giving free shit away now to try to lure stupid people in.

Vaccines are being thrown out because nobody wants them.

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Wednesday, July 7, 2021 6:38 AM

rezident owtsidr

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Life Expectancy Tables
www.annuityadvantage.com/resources/life-expectancy-tables/]

If youre 119, you only hav .62 yir left.

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Wednesday, July 7, 2021 7:07 AM

rezident owtsidr

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
I only feel bad for those who still haven't had access too, but want the vaccine JO. That would be because of the local government’s failure to provide it. Mostly in republican states I'm thinking.

Another motiv for voterz to favor Democrats or move to a smarter state.

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The real pandemic solution: http://uvpk.net/

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Wednesday, July 7, 2021 8:23 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JO753:
Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
I only feel bad for those who still haven't had access too, but want the vaccine JO. That would be because of the local government’s failure to provide it. Mostly in republican states I'm thinking.

Another motiv for voterz to favor Democrats or move to a smarter state.

Don't entertain his stupidity.

There are no vaccine shortages in any state. They're all throwing away vaccines now that are going bad because nobody else wants one.

Even the Lefty shill media has reported on this.

I've been harassed no less than 4 times now to get a vaccine via email from the state, and they're very quick to let me know that I can walk in at any time without an appointment.

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Wednesday, July 7, 2021 4:33 PM

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Texas Republicans buck Biden's vaccine drive

“Do it now for yourself and the people you care about, for your neighborhood, for your country,” Biden said. “It sounds corny, but it’s a patriotic thing to do.”

Meanwhile, Texas Republicans are vowing to fight President Joe Biden’s efforts to ramp up efforts to get more Americans to receive COVID-19 shots as vaccination rates in states like Texas have stagnated.

“Not on my watch!” Attorney General Ken Paxton tweeted in response to the president’s comments on Tuesday that “we need to go community-by-community, neighborhood-by-neighborhood, and oft times door-to-door, literally knocking on doors.”

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, a San Antonio Republican, on Wednesday directed a tweet at Biden with a play on the “Come and Take It” flag that shows an image of a syringe with the words “Come Inject It.” In a separate tweet, the congressman said he thought a door-to-door push would be unconstitutional, as such an approach was “only really contemplated in Constitution for the census.”

U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady, a Republican from The Woodlands whose district has among the lowest rates in the state at just under 40 percent, accused Biden for “fearmongering.”

www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Not-on-my-watch-Texas-
Republicans-buck-16299133.php

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Thursday, July 8, 2021 8:44 AM

THG

Quote:
Originally posted by JO753:
Quote:
Originally posted by THG:

I only feel bad for those who still haven't had access too, but want the vaccine JO. That would be because of the local government’s failure to provide it. Mostly in republican states I'm thinking.

Another motiv for voterz to favor Democrats or move to a smarter state.

The real pandemic solution: http://uvpk.net/]

T

RED SHIRTS

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Friday, July 9, 2021 10:19 AM

rezident owtsidr

HAAlarious! Odd, I woct an episode uv Star Trek yesterday, first time in many yarinz. (it wuz the Nazi Jermany wun and MAN wuz it cheezy!)

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Friday, July 9, 2021 10:21 AM