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    philosophically or in real life.



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    Not one mask will stop a bullet when 100,000,000 million well-armed Americans start shooting this country’s democracy freaks.




    The New York Times is being criticized for publishing a lengthy op-ed defending the Chinese government's authoritarian crackdown in Hong Kong. Under the headline, "Hong Kong Is China, Like It or Not," the Times granted valuable journalistic space to Chinese politician Regina Ip to denounce pro-democracy protesters for "stirring up chaos and disaffection toward our motherland," and defending government-led efforts to postpone elections.

    A Washington Free Beacon analysis of the newspaper's decision to publish the controversial opinion piece determined that the New York Times was putting the lives of people of color at risk by effectively endorsing an authoritarian regime that considers pro-democracy advocacy to be a form of domestic terrorism. The dangerous op-ed also threatens the lives of professional journalists attempting to report on the situation in Hong Kong, and empowers a regime that views the media as the enemy of the people.

    ANALYSIS: New York Times Puts Non-White Lives In Danger
    Andrew Stiles
    October 1, 2020 4:40 PM

    https://freebeacon.com/satire/new-york-times-hong-kong/
    The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer

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    Question: if Superman wears a mask, will the mask become bulletproof, like his cape?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post
    Have any American leftists criticized the failing New York Times for their ant-democracy op-ed?
    To Legion: The NY Times is anti-China’s attacks on pro-democracy. Basically, the NY Times is, and always has been, an advocate for democracy; i.e. totalitarian government going all the back to Lenin and Stalin.

    Note that the NY Times never tells their readers that the U.S. is a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. The entire press led by the NY TIMES spent decades convincing Americans that this country is a democracy.

    If you doubt it look at how many top Democrats talk about “defending our democracy.” Not one of those filthy Communist scum bags advocates limited government and individual liberties.

    I have railed against the Democracy Movement in a thousand messages. Make no mistake about the Democracy Movement —— it is the most insidious conspiracy ever devised to destroy this country’s individual liberties. Throughout history democracy has been the parasite’s preferred form of government. If that is not enough to tell you about the kind of people behind the Democracy Movement, this should scare you stiff: Democracy is always going towards something worse; never towards liberty.

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...92#post3227492
    Last edited by Flanders; 10-04-2020 at 12:53 AM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    Not one mask will stop a bullet when 100,000,000 million well-armed Americans start shooting this country’s democracy freaks.


    Aside from taking part in demonstrations, it is nearly impossible to identify democracy’s parasites when they keep their mouths shut. Wearing a mask offers a solution to the problem. Shoot everybody wearing a mask.

    Draconian lockdowns invoked by governmental fiat with little basis in science are nonsensical and unconstitutional. I live in Washington state and I have a mustache. I went to my barbershop when they were first allowed to open on a limited basis and got a haircut and mustache trim. Last week, they were able to cut my hair but not my mustache.

    We the people, should not blindly follow these mandates and surrender our civil rights without question.

    State public health agencies during outbreaks of epidemics do have limited police powers to isolate or quarantine people who are sick or are coming from foreign areas that have highly infectious and deadly diseases. The federal government has the same power for people entering the US and traveling between states. These diseases were smallpox, typhoid, cholera, and the plague with high death rates. It was routine to quarantine sailing ships coming into port and to isolate those who were sick in the community. In some cases people who refused to comply were involuntary isolated, like Typhoid Mary.

    Our public health quarantine laws are antiquated and require updating. Notwithstanding their antiquity, one thing is obvious; there is a right of due process and equal protection.


    . . . under the Constitution, individuals have rights in quarantine and isolation conditions. Under the 5th and 14th Amendment’s rights of Due Process and Equal Protection, public health regulations used to impose such conditions can’t be “arbitrary, oppressive and unreasonable.”


    The initial lockdown’s stated purpose was to keep hospital ICUs from being overwhelmed until the new virus's nature, and risks were better understood. These lockdowns were to be short-term. But some states have extended the lockdowns for months based on criteria that are arbitrary, oppressive, and unreasonable. A good case can be made these actions under the guise of public health are actually political in nature to affect the 2020 Presidential Election.

    We were told the lockdowns and the wearing of masks by everyone would protect those most at risk by COVID-19. But over time, the condition placed on lifting these measures morphed into somehow eradicating the virus. This lie was spread by the radical left and a complicit media by disinformation, hysteria, and evoking fear. On the advice of unelected "governmental experts," who waffled over time, governments implemented these measures with the force of law and regulatory action, i.e., yanking business and professional licenses of those who did not comply. These measures are arbitrary, capricious, oppressive, not equally applied, and have little basis in science -- church services were prohibited, and the police arrested some who attended. Yet, public protests, rioting, and arson of public and private property were tolerated.

    The so-called "flattening of the curve” has nothing to do with actually eradicating the virus. No amount of testing, on and off again lockdowns, and/or mask-wearing will do that. These measures will only delay the spread of the virus until there are effective vaccines for COVID-19, antivirals, better treatment protocols, and or until herd immunity is reached in a given population. Until then, under the long tail of the flattened curve, the same number of people will be infected.

    Focusing on positive tests as a criterion for releasing these restrictions is purely subjective. The horses are already out of the barn. Actual deaths due to COVID-19 are a more realistic tracking measure. It is clear from the graph below that Washington state is about done with COVID-19, and yet many counties, including Spokane, where I live, are still locked in Stage 2. Gov. Jay Inslee is still refusing to allow counties to open up based on cases per 100,000 residents. See Spokesman-Review, “COVID-19 activity plateauing statewide . . . “



    This graph is one of many graphs created and updated by Dr. Douglas G. Frank. It clearly shows COVID-19 in Washington is on the wane. Dr. Frank has commented extensively on the fallacy of relying on the number of positive cases as the basis of setting public policy.

    Requiring masks as a matter of public policy is also fallacious. Except for N95 masks in negative pressure hospital rooms with other PPE that are immediately disposed of after each entry into the room, requiring the use of masks is spurious at best. See the extensive debate thread on the use of masks on Dr. Franks’ Facebook page [Note: Click label icon “masks”]. See Dr. Franks’ bio here.

    Dr. Ted Noel also says, “. . . an anesthesiologist with 36 years [sic]experience wearing masks in operating rooms explains why masks don’t work.” Some disagree with Dr. Noel’s opinion, but only if the masks are worn in a proper manner, which is a lot to expect of the general public.

    What are the public policy ramifications of the governmental actions and responses to COVID-19?

    Many states' current actions are driven by fear of the unknown, not based on objective scientific research. Further, the COVID-19 emergency was weaponized for political agendas

    From a relative risk analysis, the “cure” has been worse than the virus itself. The risk of dying in any one year from COVID-19 is relatively small compared to the cures' impact on the US population. See this article in the NY Times, “Putting the Risk of COVID-19 in Perspective:”

    I have one correction. The survival rate in every age group that actually dies from coronavirus is 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999 percent.


    The CDC’s data on COVID Survival Rate by age group:

    0-19 years 99.997%

    20-49 years 99.98%

    50-69 years 99.5%

    70+ years 94.6%

    The US economy tanked. The airline and tourist-related industries were severely affected, as was the manufacturing sector. Restaurants, bars, and small businesses were closed, and many have since gone under. Schools were closed. We have loosed the “Karens” on the population who do not conform, arrested people (here and here) for noncompliance with governmental fiats.

    We have induced undue stress on the population in general with little benefit. The Seattle Times: “As we near 6 months in Washington’s stay-home order, mental health experts warn that things may get worse.”

    A more prudent way forward is to acknowledge the real risks of COVID-19 in terms that people can understand, educate the people, let the people decide what level of risk is acceptable to them, and what mitigations they are willing to do.

    Life is not risk-free. Every day, we take prudent risks, i.e., leaving the house, walking down the street, going to work, driving a car, flying in a plane, seeing a doctor, having surgery, and many other everyday activities. Nanny state mandated intervention has many unintended consequences that result in the cure being worse than the virus’s impact on society.

    Live free or die!


    October 3, 2020
    Time to End COVID Lockdowns and Mask Mandates
    By Ron Wright

    https://www.americanthinker.com/arti..._mandates.html
    The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post
    Have any American leftists criticized the failing New York Times for their ant-democracy op-ed?
    Has anyone...who amongst the people who matter still takes the NYT's as anything but the Revolution captured rag that it is?

    It is in the words of Heather unreadable.
    This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.

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    We're still talking about masks?
    Don't be afraid to see what you see

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    Quote Originally Posted by Guille View Post
    We're still talking about masks?
    Any great spot to point out that NYT's, once a great paper, is now an unreadable worthless rag works for me.
    This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    Not one mask will stop a bullet when 100,000,000 million well-armed Americans start shooting this country’s democracy freaks.
    Nor will a hundred million masks prevent the parasite hustler from being fired:

    Trump Threatens to Fire Fauci in Rift With Disease Expert
    By Associated Press,
    Nov. 2, 2020, at 9:16 a.m.

    https://www.usnews.com/news/health-n...disease-expert

    This is why the dirty little freak deserves to be called a parasite hustler:

    I know Fauci made a small fortune using the power of government to force tens of millions of Americans to wear masks. Getting a buck for every mask manufactured and sold is big money.

    XXXXX


    UNBELIEVABLE: In New Interview Bobby Kennedy Jr. Claims Dr. Fauci will Make Millions on Coronavirus Vaccine and Owns Half the Patent

    By Joe Hoft
    Published August 3, 2020 at 9:54pm

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...s-half-patent/

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...08#post3924808
    Last edited by Flanders; 11-02-2020 at 03:47 PM.
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    Great, maskdebaters.

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