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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    98.9% recovery rate. Get a life.
    35,216,594 cases

    617,000 dead

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    Quote Originally Posted by Concart View Post
    I'm sure glad Stretch is quoting an article by a fictional character. It really adds gravitas to the website.



    Vaccines are causing an outbreak. ROTFLFMAO!!!! Can anyone be that fucking stupid? I guess stretch can. If you are puzzled, maybe just think it through.
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    The United States is very obviously two different nations trying with no success whatever to share the same borders and the same government.

    We seem to be choosing dystopia over partition, and we'll regret it for certain.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    I'm kind of glad we are not one homogenous monstrosity of an Authoritarian State.
    I'm NOT. We're fucked because of it.

    The United States is very obviously two different nations trying with no success whatever to share the same borders and the same government.

    We seem to be choosing dystopia over partition, and we'll regret it for certain.
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    Quote Originally Posted by reagansghost View Post
    35,216,594 cases

    617,000 dead

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    And the hospitals that couldn't treat heart attacks and strokes because resources being used for covid
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    Quote Originally Posted by reagansghost View Post
    35,216,594 cases

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    Still 98.9% recovery rate and better than the rest of the most-vaxxed countries in the world. Get a life.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    I simply give examples where we choose to accept risk and where we do not. And told you that I believe that even risk to me does not change this. I believe the government should educate rather than bootjack folks into something. If folks won't do what you want because they think the risk is worth it, then you are going to need to live with their decision. Vaccinate and protect yourself is my advice, because I do not believe you will be successful in your quest for authoritarian government forcing vaccinations and/or protection from the unvaccinated.

    I do not believe that Americans will be happy in a land of "show me your papers"...
    You think wrong. And no one is saying the government should mandate vaccines. That's a strawman. I would happily visit any restaurant, sporting event, movie theater, or other venue that banned the unvaccinated. It should be happening right now, and in your quest for 'Freedom' you have assured that it will. So congrats.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    Um... I have gotten the vaccine, I was one of the testers...

    I did that so you, yes you personally (and others like you), would not be so afraid. Fear is a mind killer, as you demonstrate here, nothing in this post says you are brilliant. I prefer to allow other folks, all folks really, to be able to choose what happens to their own bodies, even if it brings along with it some risk to me. Much like seatbelts and a zillion other things... I prefer to have risk over Authoritarian Government, and I will vote that way every single time.
    So, you have been vaccinated with the COVID vaccine. Whatever happened to "Living with danger"? And your excuse is so 'others' would not be afraid?
    BWWWAAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!! Do you really expect me (and others like me) to believe that? That's got to be the
    lamest reason to get vaccinated in the history of the world. I could give a shit if you got vaccinated. No sweat off my balls. But keep believing that you getting vaccinated made me (and others like me - I'm assuming you mean other Americans) less afraid. Whatever helps you sleep at night, Damo.

    And where are all these 'Government Authoritarians' who are FORCING Americans to get vaccinated. Personally, the Government didn't have to tell me to get the vaccine.
    I got it as soon as it was available. Nobody forced me. I was one of the first in line. All this bullshit about Government Overreach is just a silly far right wing scare tactic.
    They never miss the chance to tell their minions that the Boogey Man is out to get them and they need RepubliQans to save them. Why? Because it works for them as their voters have proven over and over again.

    At least we agree about Authoritarian Governments. You know, the type of Government that King Trump was striving to achieve (and still is).

    au·thor·i·tar·i·an | əˌTHôrəˈterēən |
    adjective
    favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom: the transition from an authoritarian to a democratic regime.
    • showing a lack of concern for the wishes or opinions of others; domineering; dictatorial: he had an authoritarian and at times belligerent manner.
    Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
    “We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”



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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    Still 98.9% recovery rate and better than the rest of the most-vaxxed countries in the world. Get a life.
    Get a life? 617,000 Americans dead! Tell them to Get a Life, Gomer.

    Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
    “We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”



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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    "More Red-State Trouble, U.S. looks increasingly like two different countries"
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/b...states-us.html

    "Delta variant sweeps through states that dialed back health powers"
    https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...d-cases-500483

    "The Delta variant is hitting red states hardest as the US's vaccine divide widens"
    https://news.yahoo.com/delta-variant...132500281.html

    "As the Delta variant spreads, Republican reluctance will mean thousands more deaths"
    https://www.salon.com/2021/07/09/as-...s-more-deaths/

    "Delta Variant Now Accounts for 83% of U.S. Cases"
    https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/2021...us-covid-cases

    And as an epitome of the stupidity behind it - “I’d rather have a dangerous freedom than a comfortable safety" - Arkansas state Sen. Trent Garner (https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...d-cases-500483)
    YES...BLACK AND WHITE, AS BLACKS REMAIN THE LARGEST % UNVACCINHATED DEMOGRAPHIC, FOLLOWED BY HISPANICS..


    RACIST MUCH???
    TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..


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    Quote Originally Posted by Concart View Post
    Your article is two and a half months old.
    And? I was simply giving the person an example of a story they may have wanted to post rather than a link that went nowhere. Seriously, do you think you made "gotcha" points here? I helped some dude find a link to a story that had a title much like his, that's it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Capitalist View Post
    So, you have been vaccinated with the COVID vaccine. Whatever happened to "Living with danger"? And your excuse is so 'others' would not be afraid?
    BWWWAAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!! Do you really expect me (and others like me) to believe that? That's got to be the
    lamest reason to get vaccinated in the history of the world. I could give a shit if you got vaccinated. No sweat off my balls. But keep believing that you getting vaccinated made me (and others like me - I'm assuming you mean other Americans) less afraid. Whatever helps you sleep at night, Damo.

    And where are all these 'Government Authoritarians' who are FORCING Americans to get vaccinated. Personally, the Government didn't have to tell me to get the vaccine.
    I got it as soon as it was available. Nobody forced me. I was one of the first in line. All this bullshit about Government Overreach is just a silly far right wing scare tactic.
    They never miss the chance to tell their minions that the Boogey Man is out to get them and they need RepubliQans to save them. Why? Because it works for them as their voters have proven over and over again.

    At least we agree about Authoritarian Governments. You know, the type of Government that King Trump was striving to achieve (and still is).

    au·thor·i·tar·i·an | əˌTHôrəˈterēən |
    adjective
    favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom: the transition from an authoritarian to a democratic regime.
    • showing a lack of concern for the wishes or opinions of others; domineering; dictatorial: he had an authoritarian and at times belligerent manner.
    It's not an excuse it is reality. Regardless. I still support others right to reject it too. They are less afraid, my action was not for them.

    I've been through this argument before with another poster. My motivations may be different than yours, but they are understandable to anyone except a sociopath.

    I got to choose something, you get to choose something, the reason I do it whether or not you would for that same reason is not what is up for debate. That is what I support, folks get to choose.

    And the "Authoritarians" you can't find are the ones clapping over fascist rules in France and hoping for more of them here.
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    It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    "More Red-State Trouble, U.S. looks increasingly like two different countries"

    Well I certainly HOPE so. Geeeeesh. Kind of senseless if people can't tell the difference and make choice. It's the American way. LOL


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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    It's not an excuse it is reality. Regardless. I still support others right to reject it too. They are less afraid, my action was not for them.

    I've been through this argument before with another poster. My motivations may be different than yours, but they are understandable to anyone except a sociopath.

    I got to choose something, you get to choose something, the reason I do it whether or not you would for that same reason is not what is up for debate. That is what I support, folks get to choose.

    And the "Authoritarians" you can't find are the ones clapping over fascist rules in France and hoping for more of them here.
    But not one fucking word from you that the entire right was telling Americans lies to get them to make the worst choice


    Who’s the sociopath damo?

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    Yes, one where there are urban enclaves of blue surrounded by huge swaths of lower population red...

    New York


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