@raphjd said in YouTube suspends Sky News Australia:

@bi4smooth

I really haven't watched NewsMax.

LOL, you are such a clown. You are the one that said that I could only be a conservative if I supported Romney, McCain, Liz Cheney, etc, etc. So, in your view, conservatives are warhawk scumbags.

Let's not forget, Trump has not violated the US constitution in less than 7 months, like you guy, Honest Joe. He's even done it after a SCOTUS ruling against him.

You didn't like Trump because he bragged, but you love liar Joe because he lies. Can you tell us a job Honest Joe has not claimed to have done?

Oh, you DO love to substitute your own words for others', don't you.

Lots of Conservatives weren't happy with Romney, McCain, Cheney (either one), and so on... but Republicans supported them (at least Romney & McCain at the Presidential level) - or at least voted for them - because they were the candidate of the Party... the same way many people came 'round to supporting Trump in 2016.

Conservatism is a belief system, not a political party. Trump is not actually a Conservative in a lot of ways (tho he is in some other ways)...

To be clear:

I didn't say you weren't a Conservative, I said you weren't a Republican before Trump! You've spent so much of your energy blindly supporting all things Trump, you've shared precious little of your own political philosophy... so I wouldn't dream of attaching a label to you in that regard...

So:

• Are you a Conservative now? maybe - you claim to be & you certainly stand behind Trump!
• Were you a Conservative pre-2016? maybe - not enough data, but I wouldn't be surprised by that being a solid no...
• Are you a Republican now? I don't think so... I think you're a Trumpite: and if he created a Trump Political Party as a replacement for the Republican Party, you'd go with him without hesitation. (I believe you follow the man, not the Party or the Philosophy)
• Were you a Republican pre-2016? You have made it clear that the answer is a solid NO.

@raphjd said in CDC: 397 Children Suffered Heart Inflammation After COVID-19 Vaccine:

@bi4smooth

You said you trust your doctor when he recommended the Pfizer shot for your under 18 son.

The J&J shot causes Guillain-Barré Syndrome but you would trust your doctor if he said to get it.

I guess your dentist also recommends full-mouth tooth extraction because teeth can get cavities.

We already know your vet recommends xylitol for dogs who need to lose weight.

That has nothing to do with your extreme TDS or maybe it does, how knows with you liberals. You made it about politics, so let's run with it.

You are such an expert at creating and then burning a straw-man!
The problem is, it's all data you make up!

When you wake up in the morning and put your feet on the bathroom floor, you are taking a risk (those tile floors can become VERY slippery when wet - and that's what bathroom floors are designed for: getting wet!)

If you want a vaccine that has zero side-effects on anyone who takes it, you'll have to wait for another 50 years or so - when they'll be able to "design" the vaccine for your own personal, unique, DNA. That ain't today!

You do realize that the original Polio vaccines in the mid-1950s actually CAUSED Polio (and death from it) in a tiny percentage of people who took it? Yet, people in the 1950's and 1960's lined up to get the shot - and Polio was all-but-wiped-out. (And some small number of people did actually die because of the vaccine itself).

A tiny percentage of children have adverse reactions to the MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) vaccine every year.... yet, parents (and school systems) around the world still line up to get nearly all children that shot as well.

If you applied the same level of fear mongering and hyperbole to the act of driving, you'd be running around with your hair on fire trying to stop people from dying on the streets!

Back to the point:

My doctor did recommend that my son take the Pfizer vaccine - and he did, and he's had no side effects (other than, presumably, being better prepared to fight off the COVID virus, should he encounter it). That recommendation echoed the CDC and FDA recommendations. Again, if there is a Pfizer recommendation against it, I haven't seen it.

And even more to the point:

I expect, and depend on my Dr to know the truth about these things - and to separate the "wheat from the chaff" with all the dis-information being spread. If my Dr was not a better interpreter of this information than I am, then I wouldn't need her as a Dr, would I? I'd just do it all myself. (Sorry, I have a certain amount of hubris - but nowhere near that amount!)

RE: The J&J shot (and the others like it that use the older, "dead virus" vaccine technology)
I have recommended to my friends and family that they take a pass on that one, and choose one of the mRNA versions instead.

The rest of your hyperbolic firestorm of assholery isn't worth responding to... that straw-man doesn't exist, except in your deepest psyche...

@manhandler said in CDC now says Vaccinated are the ones spreading the new Delta variant.:

@bi4smooth Your "facts" are just wrong. The PCR test is not a diagnostic, and in fact, the FDA has revoked it's use. So there is no way to tell if the people being hospitalized are there for Covid or something else like the Flu, which they also said they cannot distinguish between that and Covid. You can cry all you want that those people are infected with Covid, but the fact of the matter remains: the PCR does not diagnose, the test is 100% invalid, and is being done away with. So you DO NOT KNOW if the people in the hospital are in fact, infected with Covid or not, because the test itself has been deemed invalid and unsafe.

You know what?

I give up!

The virus is actually killing people like you (science deniers and anti-vaxers), and while it's still infecting people like me (vaccinated, mask-wearing, and cautious), we have taken precautions, so we are not dying! Hell, we're not even going to the hospital, much less dying!

So... stick your head in the sand, and DIE!

...and when you die (whether by COVID, or other cause - because we all eventually die!) you will face your maker... and I hope you are judged fairly. Not just for the harm you have done to yourself, but for the harm you have done to others with your attempts to dissuade them from protecting themselves. Fairly... and not by me! - I don't presume to judge.

I do, however, presume to be able to read scientific literature... and your lot are the ones dying - in numbers that are increasing daily... so deny deny deny and die! Math does not lie.

Do the math:

• 70% of self-reporting Democrats in the US are vaccinated against COVID-19. In some parts of the country, that number gets close to 90%...
• 15% of self-reporting Republicans in the US are vaccinated against COVID-19. In some parts of the country, that number gets closer to 5%...
• 95%+ of hospitalizations (and deaths) of COVID-19 infections are un-vaccinated folks

480 people died yesterday in the US from COVID-19. And the numbers are RISING (not falling anymore)...

Just using the statistics (not high-level math, just spit-balling it) - at least 400 of those 480 souls were Republicans.

By continuing to fight against every tool we have against COVID-19 (vaccines and masks), our Republican leaders are literally killing our own electorate!

Here in Florida, if cases STOPPED increasing, and just held steady (an improbable dream), we'll lose at least 70,000 Republican voters by the November 2022 elections.

This is a red-purple state - statewide elections are sometimes decided by fewer than 10,000 votes. We can't afford to lose 70,000 "red" voters and expect to still win!

This isn't looking good for DeSantis' re-election (Governor), nor Rubio's (Senator). WFT people! Wake up and smell the coffee!

We need to accept that COVID-19 isn't (and never was) a political issue. It wasn't created to cost Trump his presidency (though, it most certainly did have that effect!), and it's not a Government attempt to control your lives. It actually is a societal and Governmental attempt to save your ass!

We aren't hurting Democrats or Independents... we're hurting (no, killing) ourselves!

It may be crude and not politically correct, but if you're stupid enough to think these statistics are being made up by the liberal media, then perhaps the "Darwin Effect" is an appropriate measure for you!

• The "Darwin Effect" is a term used when someone who winds up killing themselves having done something so incredibly stupid that it is considered a genetic benefit to the human race to have had their genetic material removed from genealogical history.

@raphjd said in 3rd Capitol Cop who responded to 6 Jan commits suicide:

According to some sites, he is the 4th to commit suicide.

I'm sorry, but making fun of 4 federal policemen who suffered from PTSD as a result of the Jan 6 insurrection by claiming that they "had dirt on Hillary" is abusive and disgusting.

These were patriots of the highest measure. And their experiences from Jan 6 were too much for them to bear.

• Yes, it's OK to ask if we need better psychological screening of Capitol Police Offices
• Yes, it's OK to ask if we (as a nation) need to improve our handling of psych issues as a whole
• No, it's NOT OK to use these people as political fodder for baseless conspiracy theories... that's just "in poor taste"

Have some human decency?

@raphjd said in YouTube suspends Sky News Australia:

@bi4smooth

You do love liberal media. That is how you "know" much about QAnon compared to the rest of us. You also routinely post liberal sites as sources.

The national broadcasters (ABC, BBC, CBC, etc) are all liberal outlets. Because you are so liberal, you don't think it. Regardless of their political stance, everyone in the UK knows there is a fight over the BBC being very liberal. Hell, CBBC aka Children's BBC, teaches kids all the "progressive" crap, like Critical Race Theory and whatnot.

You liberals don't like my Epoch News, but you clowns love you some BBC.

The BBC|'s Question Time is always rigged. They have only 1 conservative and the rest including the host are all liberals. This was extremely clear during Brexit.

Any news outlet to the left of Newsmax is a "liberal" source to you...
Your perspective is so stilted as to have no perspective at all.

There is no grey in your world, is there? No outlet could be conservative, but not as conservative as Tucker Carlson... no, if they're not 100% with you on every syllable, they're "liberal"...

Do you wear the same toupee as Trump (your lord and Savior)?

@raphjd said in CDC now says Vaccinated are the ones spreading the new Delta variant.:

@bi4smooth

I'm not talking about being wrong. I'm talking about Fauci being a liar.

He's been proven in both Houses of Congress to be a liar over GOF research and other topics.

He admitted he lied about masks so there would be some for the first responders. You know, a similar lie Trump told so there wouldn't be mass panics, but you liberals went mental over that. Can we say DOUBLE STANDARDS?

Ok, so you have proven that you liberals can't tell the difference between doing good or doing evil. Soros has used his money to cause shit storms across the globe and he's said he doesn't see the problem with it; ie destroying the Japanese economy in the 1990s. Soros, a jew, was also a jew hunter for the nazis, so we know where his morals lie. Bill gates stole the DOS code from a friend's garage and he continued from there.

There's also a huge difference between 2nd Amendment stuff and bringing illegals to western countries. Koch Bros vs Soros.

Every time you say something, you show that you are a Hillary-Pelosi Democrat.

Fauci didn't LIE about his recommendation that we not wear masks early in the pandemic! He said there were 2 reasons:

• First, they thought it was spread by contact, not aerosol. (They were wrong, but that is what was thought at the time)
• Second, they didn't want there to be a run on masks - they wanted them to be there for medical professionals and first responders (a legitimate need - don't you remember the shortages of them early on? **Damn you have a short and selective memory!)

The issue isn't good vs evil Rich People... I'm all for saying I disagree with the Koch brothers on certain issues (I agree on others), as well as disagreeing with almost everything Soros does, and a mixed bag on what Gates does... My point is that they get to spend their own money however they see fit - even for political motives that are counter to my own! That doesn't make them evil, it makes them "the opposition"...

Once again, the point was clear and concise, and you missed it completely!

It's their money, and they get to spend it however they want!

I'm sure if you had that much money, you'd spend it on donuts and whores... but that'd be your choice, wouldn't it?

Making the opposition out to be evil is a tool of the weak and intolerant. (Do you need a mirror?)

@raphjd said in CDC: 397 Children Suffered Heart Inflammation After COVID-19 Vaccine:

@bi4smooth

So you claim that your dr knows more about the Pfizer shot than Pfizer.

WOW, just fucking WOW!!!

Want to know what's wow? You repeatedly trying (and failing) to tell me what I just said!

Did you mean to put your dick in your mouth?

I said I trust my Dr over Politicians - I didn't say anything about Pfizer.
I happen to think (though I haven't researched it yet - so I haven't commented yet) that your claim that Pfizer itself does not recommend it's COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents is incorrect... so, I haven't commented on that yet.

I didn't say anything about your claim that Pfizer doesn't recommend the COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 12-18.

I don't know, has repeating myself three times driven home the point?

I am not the straw man you're looking for... and I decline the invitation to become one!

@nikolaos84 said in Infatuated with a straight/bi guy. Mixed signals. What to do?:

It seems to me that he wants to be st8 but he cannot ignore his natural urges for men. Sooner or later he may come in terms with his sexuality but that should not be your concern at this momnet.

I had a similar experience which did not end well. If you can stay in the safe zone of sexual encounters then it is ok but if you have feelings it is better to take your distance from him. This guy will never accept you as a central part in his life, he does not respect you and he refuses to give you his phone number. You will only be a fringe part of his life and he will come to you only when he will want sex with men.

There are many men out there who would be more open and available for you, don't be disapointed.

I agree - only partially - with @nikolaos84...

First, I agree that if you continue to force yourself and your feelings onto him, you're almost certain to lose him (not to mention drive him deeper into his "closet"...

It's never easy - for any of us! - to come to terms with the fact that we're not wired the way "society" says we're supposed to be wired! For some, "bucking the norm" is easy, and for others it's nearly impossibly hard.

That said, I wouldn't write him off completely: you never know when he'll wake up and realize that dick/ass makes him harder than pussy! When he does, you may or may-not be there to reap the rewards. It may be next week, next month, or in 40 years (yes, when he's in his 70's! I've seen that happen!)

If you can step back, accept him for who & what he is: a hot fuck who is unsure of his sexuality. Enjoy the sex, maybe let it also blossom into a friendship, but do not try to turn it into a relationship, nor try to make yours some kind of monogamous thing.... instead, try to help him explore his sexuality... try new things with him (clothing/costumes, light bondage, whatever.. let HIM suggest things... but let him know "it's just sex play"... nothing "serious"...

Of course, if we could turn our emotions on and off, life would be soooooo much simpler... it's entirely possible that that kind of relationship with him is just impossible for you... in which case, you can leave him or drive him away... if you continue to pursue him too aggressively, surely one of those 2 options will come to fruition!

Good luck! I hope you have some great sex and he eventually figures out how queer he is - and accepts it (and appreciates you for being patient with him)!!

@kekkaishi said in C-19 and the liberal hivemind:

That's the definition of NPC

@raphjd said in C-19 and the liberal hivemind:

This picture only shows 5, but there are more than 100 such posts on the Twitter.

Notices they aren't retweets.

Likewise with Facebook.

Nearly identical quotes from supposedly different people?

Not hardly...

Certainly there are break-thru cases of COVID-19 - the same as kids who have been vaccinated against measles can still get a slight case if someone in their school get it! The danger (in school) isn't that it starts spreading because one kid gets it... the danger is that, even though nearly everyone WILL get it if it is brought into the school environment - and some of those kids (and adults) will not have been vaccinated, and so will get very sick (and possibly die)....

Vaccines don't stop you from getting the virus, they simply prepare your body so that when it is invaded by the virus, you don't get so sick (or possibly even sick at all).

Did none of you take Biology 1 in High School?
Did they not teach you how viruses and infections spread?
Geez!

@serenity said in Trust the science:

@bi4smooth I don't think that "science" change, but the results do, when we get smarter. And what is wrong about getting smarter. Some people have always had a problem with science, because it conflicts their world view. It has been that way for centuries.

Absolutely science changes... Heisenberg changed how we measure things. Newton changed our understanding of mass vs. weight (they are NOT the same). Hawking changed how we think of and measure time.

But separate from how science itself changes, the conclusions we make from scientific studies changes... especially when we base our conclusions on limited data... and we got that in spades with COVID-19: everyone was clamoring for answers, so the scientists gave them what they had: knowing the data was incomplete. And that made them wrong... wrong far more often than we like hearing that scientists are wrong!

There is an acronym often used in computer science: GIGO
Garbage in / Garbage out

When you have small sample sizes, your conclusions can be thrown off by the smallest of anomalies... but that is the beauty of science - we LEARN from our mistakes! We (scientists) challenge our assumptions and SEEK to prove our theories WRONG! (You can seldom prove a theory is valid, but you can often prove it wrong! The more people try - and fail - to prove a theory is wrong, the more accepted as "probably right" it becomes!

@lololulu19 said in CDC: 397 Children Suffered Heart Inflammation After COVID-19 Vaccine:

@raphjd When #senilejoe 's aides told him about giving children a little prick to vaccinate them from Covid-19, Joe started salivating at the idea of giving children a little prick. And remember Joe's motto! "6ring, 6ack, 6etter!"

Maybe this logic doesn't work for you, but it does for me!

Donald Trump knows jack shit about medicine. He couldn't spell NIH before COVID-19 without a dictionary! When Medical Doctors told him something he didn't like, he just ignored it and lied about it! I will take medical advise from Donald Trump when I take relationship advise from the Kardashians! Or, financial advise from the Madoff's!

When they're not being asked to summarize 1000 pages of research into a 15-second sound bite, the CDC and the NIH release TONS of research.. research you and I couldn't understand unless we spent 12 years in college studying medicine and infectious diseases! But fortunately for me, I know someone who CAN read those studies and get something useful out of them: my family Doctors! (Hey... you know what? They actually DID spend 12 years in college (including Medical School) studying this shit!)

So, I personally have chosen my Doctor (and my kids' Doctor) partly based on my interview with them - that included how and how much they stay up-to-date with new medical studies. So, when I asked my Dr what she thought about the COVID-19 vaccine, she wasn't acting blindly, or based on what President Trump said, or on what Dr. Faucci said! She based her response on what the ACTUAL researchers at NIH and the FDA actually wrote - and had published, as well as peer-reviewed.

For what its worth: my first COVID-19 shot came BEFORE Biden was President, and the 2nd came AFTER.

That aside, when my kids' Pediatrician said my son SHOULD get the shot, but my daughter should wait - and was able to articulate clearly how the risks to HIM were different than those to HER, I knew I had chosen wisely. My son has received 2 Pfizer shots, and we're all remaining VERY CAREFUL to help make sure my unvaccinated daughter isn't infected - at least not from us!

Long story short:

• I trust my Drs when it comes to MEDICINE.
• I trust my CPA when it comes to my taxes
• I trust my financial advisor when it comes to making investments & planning for retirement
• I trust my politicians for.... umm.....

NOTHING!

I do not trust politicians at all! Not of any kind!

@serenity said in Trust the science:

@bi4smooth Prayers! They did well for centuries too. And if you died, at least you came in heaven, because you prayed

Absolutely!

For people who don't want SCIENCE (what with it's constantly CHANGING of what's right theory and what's wrong theory), there is always FAITH!

And as you point out, FAITH HEALING has a 100% success rate at sending souls to heaven! Yippy Skippy!

For me, though... and it's just a personal choice... I'll stick with the science...

@raphjd said in CDC now says Vaccinated are the ones spreading the new Delta variant.:

@bi4smooth

The CDC and NIH are purely political.

Fauci said that gain of function research was worth s few global pandemics. He lied before both Houses of Congress. Jim Jordan did a great job of showing the timeline of Fauci's flip-flops and lies.

I also find it completely strange that you claim to be a libertarian, who believes that everyone must act in unison (ie; Another Brick In The Wall video), at the whims of a POS liar.

The US banned gain of function research, so he paid to have it done by a 3rd party in China. We won't even go into the incestuous relationship Fauci had with Bill Gates and BG's Eco Health, when he funded them

The CDC and the NIH didn't USED TO BE political. They were made so by Trump because he (stupidly) thought that he could "overcome" science with politics. Dr. Faucci has led the NIAID at NIH for nearly 40 years, and only in the past 2 has his position ever been considered political.

Again, I ask you this: is it really reasonable to think that world leaders from around the globe are all conspiring against Trump Republicans by making up facts about deaths and COVID-19's impacts to their own countries?

If you truly believe this, then you must get dizzy when looking in the mirror, what with the entire world spinning about you and just you!

If I called you a LIAR every time you were simply wrong, you'd have booted me out of the forum long ago! Dr. Faucci hasn't LIED about COVID-19, he has been shown WRONG (quite a bit) in the past 2-years WRT COVID-19... but he's really the MOUTHPIECE of the NIH's NIAID... he's not doing the research HIMSELF!

For someone espousing Conservatism routinely, you sure have difficulty with RICH people: George Soros & Bill Gates are evil incarnate - yet no complaints about the Koch brothers spending their billions on Conservative causes!

If you believe in Capitalism, then you believe that rich people are entitled to spend their money how they see fit! Whether it's for Green shit, Liberal shit, Conservative shit... you made it, you get to decide how to spend it!

Mind you: just because I think they (all) have the right to spend their money they way they want to, doesn't mean I agree with any of them! Not even the Koch brothers! I DO think money plays too big a role in politics... but equally I don't have any idea how to get it out and keep it out!

Kinda like having anal sex: sometimes you're gonna get a little "dirty"... it's all part of the risks of the playground! (ewww, right?) If we want Capitalism, then we have to also have wealthy (and super-wealthy) capitalists! If we want Freedom, then we have to also have people we disagree with exhorting their freedom too!

@raphjd said in YouTube suspends Sky News Australia:

@bi4smooth

Let's not forget that it was your beloved liberal media that played up 6 Jan, while downplaying everything BLM and Antifa do. They also ignored that Obama worships the terrorist Bill Ayres. Obama even admits this.

It's your beloved liberal media that runs with the anti-white narrative, by only showing black "victims", while ignoring white victims.

Your beloved media are always screeching about white supremacy and white gunning down blacks in the streets. It's funny how DOJ stats show that whites are victimized by blacks 11 times more than the reverse.

BTW, if you don't watch Tucker, you have nothing to say about him. You don't like him because he proved, without a doubt, that your beloved liberals lied to the people over many topics, including Russian collusion. In the media, they said they had absolute proof of Russian collusion, but in Shifty Schiff's secret hears (now mostly declassified) they said the complete opposite. Unlike your beloved liberal media, Tuck showed the stuff in their own words, rather than, as your beloved liberal media does, make shit up claiming secret sources.

Thanks, as always, for the gift of your thoughts-are-my-thoughts... but...

I am not the liberal you are looking for...

I don't love the liberal media - but I also don't worship the conservative media. I really don't need other people to interpret facts for me... I literally have 2 master's degrees from top universities in the US, and also quite literally started my career as a "rocket scientist"... so I think I can figure much of this crap out without the help of news "pundits" - on either end of the spectrum.

I also don't answer for media outlets I don't (or, at least, seldom) watch.

If you're trying to say "liberal politicians and pundits lie, but conservative ones tell the truth", then you're not just a fool, you're a damned fool.

I'm not aware of ANY US-based media outlet that is "centrist" (that is, doesn't lean - to some degree or other - left or right).... to get an "unbiased" view, I often (as I've said here before) consult media outlets from other countries: where they don't "have a dog in the fight"... they're not always right (correct), but they don't spin the shit out of everything else, either.

I agree that liberal media sometimes makes shit up (or so it seems to me) and/or has shaky sources.. but how is that worse than the Trump/Fox merry-go-round? (Trump tells Fox an obvious lie - like his inauguration in 2017 was the largest in history! - which Fox reports (citing the President of the US as a source)... then Trump "backs up" his story by saying something akin to "I don't know, but it was reported on Fox, so it must be true!"

They're all slimy bastards out for making political points one way or another. It used to be by "spin" - but now they don't even bother - they just lie!

@raphjd said in CDC: 397 Children Suffered Heart Inflammation After COVID-19 Vaccine:

397 kids 12yo to 17yo, almost exclusively boys (over 390 are boys), have had myocarditis (heart inflammation) after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

Pfizer has always said that their vaccine is not for use in those under 18yo. This also aligns with the WHO guidance for all C-19 vaccines, not just Pfizer.

The biology of children's bodies are significantly different from those of adult ones... and, in spite of our laws saying otherwise, our adolescent bodies do not fully become adult until about age 25. (All of these ages: 16, 18, 21, 25, etc are just "averages" - each body is different... ask the Army recruiters who turn away 18 y/o "children" but seek exemptions for 17 y/o "men" who want to join! Age is a calendar measure, not a measure of development or maturity!

Our Pediatrician recommended my 15 y/o son TO get the shot (Pfizer), and equally recommended my 17 y/o daughter (who has been a "late bloomer") hold off until they come out with an approved, non-emergency tested pediatric version.

It should be a case-by-case basis.... not all children of the same age are alike... and especially during adolescence, there's a lot of crazy biological shit going on in their bodies!

Consult your pediatrician before giving your child ANY vaccine... ESP the COVID-19 one...

• If you TRUST your pediatrician, take their advise
• If you DO NOT TRUST your pediatrician, get a new one! (What kind of asshole parent takes their kids to a pediatrician they do not trust?)

As much as I am in-favor of COVID-19 vaccines for adults (nearly all adults), I am still of the opinion that you should ask your Dr. about any medical decision... and the same goes for your own (adult) Dr. as for your kids pediatrician: if you do not trust your own Dr, get a new one!

The Government shouldn't be making medical decisions for you: not about vaccines, not about flu shots, not about anything... Your medical decisions should be made (privately) between you and your Dr.

@kekkaishi said in YouTube suspends Sky News Australia:

You need to go to Sky News Australia to get the truth about what's going on in the US. That is how much you cannot trust the US mainstream media. Even sometimes Fox News. Except for Tucker Carlson, he's a good guy

Don't you mean to say:

"You need to go to Sky News Australia to get the right spin on what's going on in the US...."

I mean, come on... "Fox News, except for Tucker Carlson..." really???

If there is only 1 reporter in all of the US media who is "getting it right", maybe your version of "what is right" is skewed?

Just a thought...

@manhandler said in CDC now says Vaccinated are the ones spreading the new Delta variant.:

This is because all the places with the new covid cases are in the vaccinated. Now they are saying that the vaccinated are super spreaders and need to mask up again, even though they got the clot shot.

The sad thing is, some people will believe this absurd "spin"....

Let's share the WHOLE story, shall we? It's not that vaccinated people are the one's spreading the Delta variant of COVID-19 (as-if they're the only ones)... it is that vaccinated people carry just as much virus in their upper respiratory systems as non-vaccinated people - and therefore can spread the virus just as easily as non-vaccinated people. (not more, not less, just about the same as the unvaccinated...)

Mind you, the vaccinated REMAIN unlikely to be hospitalized from the infection - many still non-symptomatic (which makes things worse, because they spread it while not even aware that they're sick!) - but vaccines have never completely stopped viruses from spreading - they've ALWAYS been ways to "spike" our immune systems into a position so that we can FIGHT the infection more easily, not GET SICK from it, and in many cases (like the Flu, Polio, Chicken Pox, Measles, etc) prevent it from spreading... which, over time, can all-but eliminate the spread of the virus entirely...

True, the CDC and NIH are still learning new things about COVID-19 (esp. the different variants) every day... and it's also true that they've gotten some things wrong (like contact spread - when's the last time they told you to wipe-down your groceries in the garage before bringing them into the house?).

No one claims we've figured this thing out completely... yes, we're still learning... but we're idiots if we don't moderate our behaviors based on what we DO know, and modify them even more when we learn even more!

The facts from Florida (USA) are this:

• 183 people died from COVID-19 on July 30th (the last day I could find stats)
• 180 of them were non-vaccinated prior to being hospitalized (according to that liberal media monolith, the Miami Herald)

It seems to me that we (Republicans) have taken the idea of "voter suppression" (the Dem's characterization - one I do not share, but it is illustrative in this point) to new heights.... but we're doing it to ourselves... and permanently!

A VAST majority of those 183 now-dead souls are (more factually: were) Republicans who believe the misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and refuse to be vaccinated.... putting themselves, and their communities (of mostly also-Republicans) at higher risk - and this Delta strain is a real pisser when compared to the one we were looking at last year!

Over 90% of hospitalizations in Florida are non-vaccinated people, and the vast majority of them are Republican voters who are buying into this "vaccines are a way of controlling us" (or worse) bullshit!

We are LITERALLY killing our own voter base!

The vaccines are a direct result of the scientific research prompted, prodded, and spurred on by President Trump! This is, in many ways, his vaccine program! All the Dems have done is distribute the Trump vaccines...

More importantly, though: come November 2022, it's going to be hard to keep Rubio as our US Senator if literally thousands of Republican voters can only vote from the grave!

Statewide races in Florida are often decided by fewer than 10,000 votes - if not even 1,000 votes!

180 people a day times 400+ days is more than 70,000 voters!

...and it's getting WORSE, not better!

I just filled out a survey for the Nat'l Republican Congressional Committee... it talks a lot about needing to unify the party... and I agree... but to do that, shouldn't we be looking forward and not backward?

@raphjd said in Trust the science:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1421844426599641092

Biden on wearing masks

I think we should avoid ALL changed to "medical science" and go back to what we all KNOW works! It worked for CENTURIES before these yahoos started with their "scientific studies"

LEECHES!

We need to periodically bleed out the "bad blood" that accumulates in our bodies... not doing so allows the "bad blood" to accumulate, and after a while it'll just plain kill you!

To stay healthy, you need to see your dentist/pharmacist/physician regularly and be appropriately bled! It's the key to sustained good health!

This knowledge hasn't changed in CENTURIES! You cannot refute a policy that has worked for so long! Saying it isn't so is just bullshit science, because we've known all this time that this method works, and telling us to STOP is just the evil doctors and pharmaceutical companies trying to control us!

@manhandler said in AZ Lawmaker tells Garland that he BETTER NOT touch AZ ballots.:

@bi4smooth He showed that he is a BITCH, and he'd cave to the left (who perpetuates high crime and low education and high pollution). He had to say something to appease the mob. He's MUCH worse than Trump. He's a phoney.

The river of shit coming out of your head would put a sheep farmer to shame!
You go boy! Assert your stupidity! Prove your in-eloquence! Divulge your lack-of-understanding of 5th Grade Civics! Yo mama be proud of you, boy!