Where it came from is irrelevant for the most part. How it has been handled is entirely another. Give up on the conspiracy theories and start working on those within your party who are willingly spreading it...now there's a REAL problem. Way to keep the tribalism alive.
Number one water carrier for China...
I am such an AWESOME editor and engineer, that I fabricated all the Trump/Woodward recordings and provided them to the news outlets...NOW THERE'S SOMETHING THAT NEVER HAPPENED.
I have in fact seen karma work multiple times in my lifetime but I may be older than you.
I somehow doubt that is the personal calculus going on... More likely ignorant people convinced by even more ignorant people to avoid the vaccine (I have one otherwise smart friend who is a virulent anti-vaxer), but I stopped communicating with him when he got too insulting (like some other people).
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| Military deaths from all causes | Civilian deaths due to military activity and crimes against humanity |
|---|
| 407,300 | 12,100 |
Yup but the comparison was not clearly defined. If you want to make it strictly about American military deaths we have only lost that many to wars "total" since we have been a country (666,441+). These same wars claimed many deaths from other country's soldiers too. War sucks... as I recall I was not pleased to be drafted during Viet nam. Famous Gen Patton quote "No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”
sadly many more people will die from covid (world wide) before this is over.
math is objective and finite if all the terms being crunched are clearly defined.
yes that is in the news, but with different explanations (like be very afraid). Also in the news is that Japan declared a state of emergency and will not allow fans into olympic events in Tokyo.
Apparently so ignorant they know what they know, and know that there's nothing they don't know. They are never wrong
I was talking about the flag waving Americans, who have been so lucky not to have a war fought in their neighborhoods since the Civil War. (Although now it seems that more and more neighborhoods are becoming war zones.)
Yeah, the one I read is that delta started clustering in Israel in schools and continued preading from there.
I am not comfortable arguing about what other people think, it can be difficult to even know what we think with certainty.
I am a flag waving American. The army sent me to Germany in 1970, but there was no fighting there at the time either.
Yet some politicians are still calling for defunding the police despite the apparent consequence of increasing violent crime. I was only "friends" (cough) with one police officer on social media (actually married to a woman I worked with years ago) but he just retired, as so many have. (My local clinic doctor voted with her feet and retired over ACA changes several years ago). The American flag I wave has a blue stripe so I support the police too). I am not sure we can put Humpty back together after so many experienced officers retire. The bad apples are not the ones retiring.
I didn't understand your Karma comment but didn't care enough to ask, still don't.
)is keeping track of the "good" and the "bad" that someone does. For me it's a statistical concept - if you do beneficial things, it skews the curve toward people wanting to respond likewise, and the same for the contrary behavior. So of course shitty things can happen to good people, and vice versa - just maybe not as often as they would otherwise.A few towns west of me, a barber shop had a sign in the window. It read,"Mask Not Allowed". That barber died just recently. This is the definition of Darwinism. I take no pleasure in his death, but I am relieved that this type of messaging has been reduced for the benefit of all people. I take relief in the fact that there is one less vote supporting stupidity. I also take some relief in the fact that 99% of all covid deaths were unvaccinated in the month of June. As I have said multiple times, pain is the only thing that brings real change. I can't change that, but all here must know that I would if I could.
I do not recall the current administration casting shade on the covid vaccine. I do recall many Democrats expressing doubt and disbelief in Donald Trump. He lied about the seriousness of the impending pandemic to better his chances of re-election. He pushed HQC as an all encompassing therapeutic (which it clearly was not, dangerous for many, in fact). DJT made so many untruthful statements that I was not going to take the vaccine if he was in office, until data supported its safety(which it does now). It was clear that his only concern was his self-preservation(hence, THE BIG LIE). If any party is to receive the branding of mixed messaging, it would be the anti-science Republicans. The fools are reacting to the chumming of the waters by fools like Boebert, Taylor, Hawley, Jordan, R. Paul, Cawthorn, Gaetz, R. Johnson, etc. I can provide hundreds, if not thousands of links to support this claim.
This is not trolling, but science. You are one of the smartest(techincally) members of this forum, yet you parrot the headlines from right-wing media. This confounds me. You must know that the vaccines work against the spread of the current strains of the virus and further spread allows new variants which render current vaccines less effective or ineffective. That is why. Please spread this scientific information, which I know you know is true, to anyone you know...especially Fox News watching Republicans...or Sinclair outlets, etc. Please never post this "hypothetical" question on the internet again. It empowers idiots who choose not to read and think this whole thing is about their freedom and/or government control. IT IS NOT. Help get our country vaccinated before it's too late...but it's already looking bad, and not because of people/voters like myself.
It seems to me that you want to make a jab and then put in a disclaimer to avoid dealing with a retort.
I cannot express remorse for anyone that willingly goes against logic and others in the name of selfishness, even Osama Bin Laden. Spoken like a true tribalist. Ever consider that may never had happened except for politics driven by big oil? Stupidity and selfishness from the capitalists. Sound familiar?
I asked , "Please never" in the best interests of society. I did not dictate. You are well aware of the divisiveness of your "innocent" question that you ASKED people to not respond to. In your words, "Do not expect me to take instructions from you about what I can or can not say."
I will not take relief in your passing. I will take relief in a collective generation fading away as generations do, so that society may start to help itself more than it currently does. Human advances throughout history have primarily taken place because of cooperation. Many of your viewpoints have forward hints of selfish overtones with a heaping dash of separatist conspiracy. These things do not work together. I'm not telling you, I asking you...please encourage your neighbors and acquaintances in your minimally vaccinated state to get the vaccine. It even helps out the capitalists. It's the most "pro-life" thing you can do. I care that you do what you can for others while you're still here...NOT AMERICA FIRST. We are all in this together.
