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| 2021-04-12 |
| [Townhall] If it weren’t so sad and devastating to people’s lives, we would be living in the middle of one of the greatest comedies of all time. Democrats are scrambling to understand why their policies related to COVID are failing while Republican policies are succeeding. There is no explanation they can see, none they can accept, because leftists are incapable of even entertaining the possibility that they could be wrong. About anything. Infection rates are surging to near record levels...in states with lockdowns and mask mandates, and they are sinking in states without them. So-called experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci can’t explain this, which means no one in media can either since he’s the only person they believe on the subject, no matter what evidence contradicts him. "Call it a ’COVID conundrum,’ in states with the strictest measures in the country, like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and much of New England, cases are on the rise," a Today Show report this week started. "While in the south, states like Arkansas and Texas that have reopened businesses and ripped away mask mandates are seeing their numbers drop." It’s like watching a child slowing beginning to question the existence of Santa Claus...but not quite get there. At least not yet. |
| Posted by:M. Murcek |
| #12 I think I will come down with COVID before Fauxi admits he's wrong most of the time. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-04-12 17:01 |
| #11 Just maybe there is an argument for herd immunity or just allowing to run its course. Social isolation does not cure it, it just slows it down, it is still going to come.. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2021-04-12 15:26 |
| #10 My wife had it. Was very sick. I didn't get it. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2021-04-12 13:30 |
| #9 ^😂 |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-04-12 11:41 |
| #8 Re #5. Thanks, G. I actually don't think I've had it. I just don't know. I have not had anything that drove me to make a doctor appointment and I sure don't see why I would get tested for anything while I'm not sick. I know when I had my semi-annual checkup in December 2020, I wasn't even asked if I wanted to be tested. Story there somewhere, as I like to say. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-04-12 11:36 |
| #7 G, I am totally with you, more on your side than you can imagine. Right now I still see so many people who are afraid I don't feel a need to stand in line with them. It's like bullets on the battlefield. If my time's up, it just is. I personally am comfortable that I can wait six more weeks to just walk in instead of making work for a bunch of recent hire incompetent paper pushers. Hell, Florida still hasn't got a unified online system to make an appointment. Totally absurd, but that's gummint. As Todd Rundgren sang, "If I die before I wake, somebody made a big mistake." I remain satisfied it won't be me making the mistake. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-04-12 11:33 |
| #6 Give us the Vax!" |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-04-12 11:30 |
| #5 ^You should still get one, MM - think of it as a booster shot. p.s. If you get second-shot symptoms on the first one, it'll vindicate your belief re having it. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-04-12 11:27 |
| #4 It's a yuuuuge anecdotal thing going way back that people would complain that they got a flu shot and still got the flu. No, I'm not one of those people saying "it's just the flu." What I am saying is what vaccine for this type virus is 100% effective? What is the effectiveness percentage for polio vaccine? For smallpox vaccine? Yes, those last two questions are unfair comparisons because those viruses have been mostly wiped out. What about measles and mumps since the anti-vaxx movement became a thing? Is there any decent research on that? A final aside. I'm not rushing to get COVID vaxx even though here in Florida I am now eligible. Why? Not because I don't want it, but because I have either had it asymptomatically (don't know, never been tested) or I'm just pretty immune as I am. I don't feel like jumping thru hoops to get something others may want / need more than I do right now. I'm going to guess by June-July it will be no fuss, no wait to get, and I'm fine with taking my chances until then. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-04-12 11:08 |
| #3 ^(a) Francisco Cosme received the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine. (b) J&J's vaccine is 72% effective in the US meaning 28 in 100 will still get infected Actually, it means 28/100 exposed to the virus will get infected - a minor, but not trivial, point. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-04-12 09:39 |
| #2 New Jersey man, 52, is hospitalized with COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-04-12 08:45 |
| #1 My SWAG is the democrats are fudging the numbers. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2021-04-12 03:20 |