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    Politics makes you sick! Who knew. Think about that for a second. Just amazing.

    'A political petri dish' 'Congress’ COVID-Positive Party'

    https://iffy.news/2020/congress-covid-positive-party/


    'After two million deaths, we must have redress for mishandling the pandemic'

    'Covid-19: Social murder, they wrote—elected, unaccountable, and unrepentant'

    https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n314


    For the reader:

    'Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs' Michael T. Osterholm, Mark Olshaker

    https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/sh...eadliest-enemy

    "Mother Nature is the greatest bioterrorist of them all, with no financial limitations or ethical compunctions."
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    Vaccine reluctance.

    Trump and Melania got their vaccine, but hide it from the public. Why? Odd don't you think.

    "While the numbers have been improving among some demographic groups, skepticism has stayed stubbornly high among one big cohort: Republicans. As of Monday, 42 percent of Republicans said they did not intend to get vaccinated, according to polling by Civiqs. Only 28 percent said they planned to. These numbers have grown slightly worse since the polling began in November.

    By contrast, only 6 percent of Democrats said they would not get vaccinated, versus 66 percent who said they would. Among independents, 43 percent planned to get vaccinated; 30 percent didn’t. Breaking it down by race, 56 percent of African-Americans and 57 percent of Hispanic and Latino respondents said they planned to get their shots, compared with only 44 percent of whites."

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/03/o...mbassador.html

    'Pace of U.S. Vaccinations vs. the World'

    https://www.factcheck.org/2021/03/pa...-vs-the-world/
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    Long Covid-19 is a good reason to stay safe till most are vaccinated. Mask up folks. This too shall pass.


    ''There’s a lot of nasty stuff': the people living with long Covid'

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ith-long-covid

    'Coronavirus: The possible long-term mental health impacts'

    https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article...health-impacts
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    More info for the interested reader.

    "More than 2,000 deaths a day are already being recorded in Brazil, largely as a result of this new strain.More than 2,000 deaths a day are already being recorded in Brazil, largely as a result of this new strain."

    'How dangerous are the new COVID variants?'

    https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2...covid-variants


    'Some long-haul covid-19 patients say their symptoms are subsiding after getting vaccines'

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...38e_story.html


    'Face Masks Are In'

    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...avirus/609283/
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    The proof my friends is in the pudding. Our second vaccine is tomorrow and according to many the second has more negatives for a few days. We'll put up with that to be safe and so America can return to normal. Many friends and family have already had both shots, one brother has had the J&J single shot. Science isn't always right but it is a better guide than online conspiracy and fake news. Hopefully you all stay safe.

    An example of fake news:

    "In short, the FunVax rumor originated largely with a filmmaker who sought to create a documentary of the same name about the “FunVax conspiracy.” The only evidence supporting the rumor is a YouTube video of questionable veracity and an unsourced document that purportedly describes the project. The entire concept of FunVax (which was supposedly already secretly developed, produced, and tested on unwitting Americans) hinged on a “God gene” theory that has yet to pass peer review or yield any known applications. Furthermore, this unproven gene theory supposedly inspired a wide-scale vaccination program involving technologies heretofore unseen in all other areas of working medical science. None of these related technologies (including vastly simplified and effective dispensation of vaccines) has ever been applied or even piloted in any areas of science or medicine before, and are so covert they are virtually unknown in documented pharmaceutical technology. Taken alone, these objections would cast the rumor into the territory of science fiction; all together, it’s pretty clear the claim is impossible on many levels."

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/funvax/


    https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-f...-idUSKBN22P35M

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ayd...tubes-policies

    https://www.thejournal.ie/debunked-b...11218-May2020/
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    Wife and I had second vaccine this week. Hopefully you all stay alive and safe for I'd miss your deep thoughts otherwise. Get the vaccine.

    'In a crowded field of wrongness, one person stands out: Alex Berenson.'

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...st-man/618475/


    "Mother Nature is the greatest bioterrorist of them all, with no financial limitations or ethical compunctions."

    Source: 'Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs' Michael T. Osterholm, Mark Olshaker
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    Had the second vaccine, all is well, hope to travel farther now, the open road calls and I love it. Overseas they aint doing too good.

    'Vitamin D: The truth about an alleged Covid ‘cover-up’'

    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56180921

    "The danger, Prof Van der Linden explains, is when people suggest the supplement is a miracle cure and should be substituted for vaccines, masks and social distancing. "

    "Covid pandemic peaks in Eastern and Central Europe and ruins Easter"

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56588509

    "India on Sunday reported more than 100,000 new cases of the coronavirus, a grim measure achieved by only the United States and briefly Brazil, and a sign that the infections in the nation of 1.3 billion could be spinning out of control."

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...ve-updates-us/
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    Check out the photo in this article. Kinda funny.

    https://iffy.news/2020/congress-covid-positive-party/


    "Mother Nature is the greatest bioterrorist of them all, with no financial limitations or ethical compunctions."


    https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/sh...eadliest-enemy
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    My wife and I have had second Pfizer shot. Slight reaction but not much, seems to depend on individual but overall including friends and our large extended family, no real issues and others have had Moderna and Johnson vaccines. So all is good and hopefully this is a one time vaccine like polio. I'm not big on vaccines today. The live Shingles caused several issues for instance. In the military they shot you with all sort of vacs with guns yet. The vets will remember that. And guess what, back then no one said no. Today Americans seem to have gotten dumber and more easily led! Why is that?

    On Topic:

    'Among the Covid sceptics: ‘We are being manipulated, without a shadow of a doubt’'

    'Who are the people who have come to follow wild conspiracy theories about Covid-19?'

    https://www.theguardian.com/news/202...-anti-lockdown

    'Eight Persistent COVID-19 Myths and Why People Believe Them'

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...-believe-them/
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    Hope all are well and vaccinated or soon to be. India is a mess but let's make America safe.

    '‘The system has collapsed’: India’s descent into Covid hell'

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...nto-covid-hell
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    This article is long and interesting, it points to the Wuhan lab as the source but stops short of certainty. In a sense it doesn't really matter for we humans now need to deal with it in an intelligent manner. That is the problem with Trump and his denial of reality. The author notes he could still be wrong. It is a complex piece check it out below.


    "By the end of this article, you may have learned a lot about the molecular biology of viruses. I will try to keep this process as painless as possible. But the science cannot be avoided because for now, and probably for a long time hence, it offers the only sure thread through the maze."

    https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-...-box-at-wuhan/


    Wear your mask and be safe. Most of our family have been vaccinated. Wife and I had Pfizer.

    'Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs' Michael T. Osterholm, Mark Olshaker

    https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/sh...eadliest-enemy


    'Coronavirus is our future | Alanna Shaikh | TEDxSMU'

    https://www.ted.com/talks/alanna_sha...ure/transcript
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    I hope that this question can be resolved but it doesn't matter today as we need to face the reality of this virus and work to cure and prevent it now. Talk and finger pointing are no help.

    'The right is dwelling on slanderous myths about the origins of covid-19'

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...gins-covid-19/

    "The universe of MAGA politics and media regularly defies Darwin. It is an environment in which the least-fit ideas tend to thrive."


    "What is the main theory on the virus’s origin? The coronavirus at the center of the global pandemic is known by the scientific name SARS-CoV-2.

    Before it spread across the world, causing the potentially deadly illness known as covid-19, the closest relative was a virus known as SARS-CoV RaTG13 that was found in bats in caves in the Chinese province of Yunnan, more than 1,000 miles away from Wuhan."

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...wuhan-who-faq/
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    A hard question is whether Americans were dumb before Trump or did Trump just bring out the dumbness? Conspiracy nonsense and anti-science now controls the dummies. How did that happen?

    And are Fox OAN and Newsmax guilty too as their downplaying the virus hurt Americans? Read 'Hoax' Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth' by Brian Stelter. He covers their distortions and the consequences.

    "Forty-two states saw an increase in COVID-19 cases last week from the week before, a sign that the pandemic is not yet over in the United States.

    Only Alaska, Delaware, Iowa, Maine, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota and West Virginia saw a decline in cases from the previous week over the seven-day period that ended Saturday.

    The rate of vaccinations has slowed, and less than half of all Americans, 47.9%, are fully vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...te/7928562002/

    'Majority of COVID deaths in US among unvaccinated as states with low vaccine rates see surges'

    https://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...tes-see-surges
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    As Covid spreads among the un-vaccinated, one has to wonder why so many Americans are growing dumber and anti-science. What changed. Instant media contact has made every fool an expert. And Facebook is part of the problem.

    'Fauci: Smallpox, polio would still be in U.S. if "false information" spread like it has with COVID'

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/fauci-sma...003546144.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by midcan5 View Post
    As Covid spreads among the un-vaccinated, one has to wonder why so many Americans are growing dumber and anti-science. What changed. Instant media contact has made every fool an expert. And Facebook is part of the problem.

    'Fauci: Smallpox, polio would still be in U.S. if "false information" spread like it has with COVID'

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/fauci-sma...003546144.html
    Alvin Toffler's 1970 book "Future Shock" was the first to touch on what we are seeing 50 years later. Notice the ages of the Qless; most are in their 40-50s. As the quote below notes, the US is evolving into a "super-industrial society". As the US saw with the advent of the automobile, all of the buggy whip manufacturer workers who don't adapt are left behind...clueless and broke just like todays Qless. They want the US to return to an industrial society with them making good money making jeans and sports shoes instead of moving forward into higher tech jobs.


    Future shock
    Alvin Toffler argued that society is undergoing an enormous structural change, a revolution from an industrial society to a "super-industrial society". This change overwhelms people. He argues that the accelerated rate of technological and social change leaves people disconnected and suffering from "shattering stress and disorientation"—future shocked. Toffler stated that the majority of social problems are symptoms of future shock. In his discussion of the components of such shock he popularized the term "information overload."

    This analysis of the phenomenon of information overload is continued in later publications, especially The Third Wave and Powershift.

    In the introduction to an essay entitled "Future Shock" in his book, Conscientious Objections, Neil Postman wrote:

    "Sometime about the middle of 1963, my colleague Charles Weingartner and I delivered in tandem an address to the National Council of Teachers of English. In that address we used the phrase "future shock" as a way of describing the social paralysis induced by rapid technological change. To my knowledge, Weingartner and I were the first people ever to use it in a public forum. Of course, neither Weingartner nor I had the brains to write a book called Future Shock, and all due credit goes to Alvin Toffler for having recognized a good phrase when one came along" (p. 162).
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