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Post by DanMcQ on Apr 25, 2021 9:57:21 GMT -5
Words are great, time for action.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2021 18:36:31 GMT -5
The pandemic has made fools of many forecasters. Just about all of the predictions whiffed. Anthony Fauci was wrong about masks. California was wrong about the outdoors. New York was wrong about the subways. I was wrong about the necessary cost of pandemic relief. And the Trump White House was wrong about almost everything else. In this crowded field of wrongness, one voice stands out. The voice of Alex Berenson: the former New York Times reporter, Yale-educated novelist, avid tweeter, online essayist, and all-around pandemic gadfly. Berenson has been serving up COVID-19 hot takes for the past year, blithely predicting that the United States would not reach 500,000 deaths (we’ve surpassed 550,000) and arguing that cloth and surgical masks can’t protect against the coronavirus (yes, they can). Berenson has a big megaphone. He has more than 200,000 followers on Twitter and millions of viewers for his frequent appearances on Fox News’ most-watched shows. On Laura Ingraham’s show, he downplayed the vaccines, suggesting that Israel’s experience proved they were considerably less effective than initially claimed. On Tucker Carlson Tonight, he predicted that the vaccines would cause an uptick in cases of COVID-related illness and death in the U.S.The vaccines have inspired his most troubling comments. For the past few weeks on Twitter, Berenson has mischaracterized just about every detail regarding the vaccines to make the dubious case that most people would be better off avoiding them. As his conspiratorial nonsense accelerates toward the pandemic’s finish line, he has proved himself the Secretariat of being wrong: *He has blamed the vaccines for causing spikes in severe illness, by pointing to data that actually demonstrate their safety and effectiveness. *He has blamed the vaccines for suppressing our immune systems, by misrepresenting normal immune-system behavior. *He has suggested that countries such as Israel have suffered from their early vaccine rollout, even though deaths and hospitalizations among vaccinated groups in Israel have plummeted. *He has implied that for most non-seniors, the side effects of the vaccines are worse than having COVID-19 itself—even though, according to the CDC, the pandemic has killed tens of thousands of people under 50 and the vaccines have not conclusively killed anybody. Usually, I would refrain from lavishing attention on someone so blatantly incorrect. But with vaccine resistance hovering around 30 percent of the general population, and with 40 percent of Republicans saying they won’t get a shot, debunking vaccine skepticism, particularly in right-wing circles, is a matter of life and death.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 26, 2021 20:33:41 GMT -5
Thanks to everyone for the AZ information. This seems like a no brainer. Also, ask yourself, what would Trump do, then do the opposite.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2021 9:56:48 GMT -5
He's done a great job. It's actually hard to figure out who's done the better job between Trump and Rupert Murdock. Both have been excellent in my humble opinion. Can't thank them enough.
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Post by DanMcQ on May 3, 2021 13:56:42 GMT -5
I take back all the bad things I have ever said about New Jersey.
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Post by SSHoya on May 9, 2021 16:55:48 GMT -5
America is fortunate that the sociopath was not re-elected. But Meyer also concluded that several populist leaders—including Bolsonaro in Brazil, Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico, and Donald Trump in the United States—downplayed the crisis. Those same leaders have presided over some of the world’s worst outbreaks. “There is an overrepresentation of governments led by populist leaders among the worst performers” against COVID-19, Frenk told me, also citing the examples of Bolsonaro, López Obrador, and Trump. “I’m not saying it’s a cause-and-effect relationship,” he added, “but it’s hard to [find] any example of a country with a populist leader that has done well.” on.theatln.tc/8wdlyAP
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Post by DanMcQ on May 30, 2021 7:11:38 GMT -5
Take note
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Post by DFW HOYA on May 30, 2021 17:01:58 GMT -5
In the Vietnam War, journalism brought the horrors of war to televisions at home and people understood. Yet, one of the sad lessons of COVID is how journalism failed to bring the pain and suffering experienced in hospitals to us first hand. It was about privacy, they told us. Instead, one network published numbers in the corner of a screen and another told their viewers it's just a bad cold. First responders didn't have that luxury. They saw it first hand. Most of us didn't, and don't fully understand the gravity as a result.
The vaccine is the way forward. Anyone who tells you otherwise is ill-informed, stupid, or just plain evil, take your pick.
The US COVID death toll is more than all United States servicemen killed in World War I and II combined. There will be no monuments for these lost souls. In fact, you can almost bet that within a few years, Tucker Carlson will tilt his head and ask his audience, "Did that many people really die?", starting the era of the COVID deniers.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jun 1, 2021 20:00:15 GMT -5
In the Vietnam War, journalism brought the horrors of war to televisions at home and people understood. Yet, one of the sad lessons of COVID is how journalism failed to bring the pain and suffering experienced in hospitals to us first hand. It was about privacy, they told us. Instead, one network published numbers in the corner of a screen and another told their viewers it's just a bad cold. First responders didn't have that luxury. They saw it first hand. Most of us didn't, and don't fully understand the gravity as a result. The vaccine is the way forward. Anyone who tells you otherwise is ill-informed, stupid, or just plain evil, take your pick. The US COVID death toll is more than all United States servicemen killed in World War I and II combined. There will be no monuments for these lost souls. In fact, you can almost bet that within a few years, Tucker Carlson will tilt his head and ask his audience, "Did that many people really die?", starting the era of the COVID deniers. Aren't we dealing with plenty of COVID deniers today, and haven't we been doing so for the last 15 months? It's stupidity run rasmpant.
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