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2021-08-29 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Is it time to stop obsessing over Covid figures? Statistics reveal virus is NOT the biggest killer - with heart disease, dementia and cancer each claiming four times as many lives in an average week last month

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-29 07:01|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 But only zero COVID is a religious cult.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-29 08:01|| 2021-08-29 08:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Twitter Permanently Bans Alex Berenson After Viral COVID Tweets

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-29 08:07|| 2021-08-29 08:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Interesting news blackout of Israeli vaccine failures and French protests over vax passport.

Posted by Xyz 2021-08-29 09:49|| 2021-08-29 09:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Somebody should explain "expònential" to the moron who wrote this.

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2021-08-29 10:04|| 2021-08-29 10:04|| Front Page Top

#5 All solutions must be global. You'll see.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-29 10:06|| 2021-08-29 10:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Keeping in mind that this is the mostest worstest emergency that ever happened and all hospitals everywhere are at the breaking point...but they are firing staff who do not want to be vaccinated.

Inasmuch as nothing so momentous and horrible beyond description has ever taken place and everybody, I say EVERYBODY must be vaccinated and have their papers at all times...Afghan refugees are being 'offered' but not required to take the vaccine. Let's not forget the border crossing individuals who are being released all over the country, you know, Sneezy and Feverish.

Given that we have a situation so black and dire that this PANDEMIC must be relentlessly promoted and a cure so wonderful it must be mandated, we simply have to face the fact that things will never improve.

Since the Def-Con meter is now irreparably destroyed and they had to release the guy in DC who runs down the street screaming run for your lives, we need to immediately go back and do all the things that didn't work in the first place, taking solace in the immense cost and lives forever ruined.

Whatever you do, ignore potentially important information about age, weight/obesity, and multiple co-morbidities. The Hell with all of that, concentrate and the straight dope, go where the big numbers are no matter what gymnastics you have to perform to get there.

Posted by Cesare 2021-08-29 10:37|| 2021-08-29 10:37|| Front Page Top

#7 #6 The new normal. I don't believe most people realize this will last many years or become permanent. The serous mental and physical issues will be costly. Industrial revolution is in its death throes as I might venture to say and humankind. In comes AI to save the day or so we will think. Work fewer hours, more vacation time as when they introduced computers.

Posted by Dale 2021-08-29 11:10|| 2021-08-29 11:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Soon new fashion lines with air conditioning(they had these for surgeons when the Aids started) for spring shows;

Posted by Dale 2021-08-29 11:16|| 2021-08-29 11:16|| Front Page Top

#9 as long as obsessing over COVID grants unearned power over citizens, it will continue.

that is all.

Posted by Retard Strength 2021-08-29 11:24|| 2021-08-29 11:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Masks are useless - until they're mandatory.

Distancing & lockdowns are needed to "flatten the curve" so we can get the vaccine - until they're permanent, regardless of the shape of the curve.

The vaccine will get us back to normal - except when new variants emerge. Which they will, inevitably and ad infinitum.

The goal isn't to serve or support the public. It's to enable the Left's agenda: suppression and destruction of a self-standing middle class and rule of law, and their replacement with UBI, cultural Marxism and the complete domination by the Woke socialist + Big Tech oligarchy.

"COVID is God's gift to the Left"

Posted by Angavirong Phinesh8576 2021-08-29 11:49|| 2021-08-29 11:49|| Front Page Top

#11 #3 XYX I noticed that also. So many are shutting down. No TV, no news media. Going back to the old days free of such distractions. The Amish had it right all along.

Posted by Dale 2021-08-29 13:32|| 2021-08-29 13:32|| Front Page Top

#12 #3 XYX I noticed that also. So many are shutting down. No TV, no news media. Going back to the old days free of such distractions. The Amish had it right all along.

Posted by Dale 2021-08-29 13:33|| 2021-08-29 13:33|| Front Page Top

#13

If I may suggest one of many sites that offers Factually Collected Data on the Covid-19 subject.

Example:

Average daily deaths in the United States from COVID-19 (August 2021) and other leading causes.

1. Heart Disease = 2,050
2. Cancer = 1,621
3. COVID-19 = 727
4. Accidents (Unintentional Injuries) = 553
5. Stroke = 440
6. Chronic lower respiratory disease = 374
7. Alzheimer Disease = 322
8. Diabetes = 275
9. Other diseases of the respiratory system = 180
10. Renal failure = 144
11. Suicide = 126

In July 2021 before the D Variant hit, and the already VAX'd found NO LONGER SAFE, Covid-19 was 8th on the list for US deaths.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-08-29 14:42|| 2021-08-29 14:42|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ #3 - Dead FROM Covid or dead WITH Covid?

Posted by Frank G 2021-08-29 15:13|| 2021-08-29 15:13|| Front Page Top

#15 Over the past month+ the death rate from covid in NE Texas is the highest in the state, and if annualized would amount to 0.2% of the population per year.

Posted by Glenmore 2021-08-29 15:27|| 2021-08-29 15:27|| Front Page Top

#16 Glenmore, death rates in the US are unchanged in the last decade, including 2019-2021.
Sorry, not sorry.
Fuck off

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2021-08-29 23:26|| 2021-08-29 23:26|| Front Page Top

#17 Wait how do we know it's COVID-19 and not the new chicom D virus?

Posted by Woodrow 2021-08-29 23:55|| 2021-08-29 23:55|| Front Page Top

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