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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    So? Life is full of risks. You have to weigh these and make a decision. Fauci plague isn't the end of the world and as diseases go it's not particularly nasty by comparison. Small pox, as one example was far more virulent and deadly and went on for centuries. People learned to live with it rather than live in fear of it.
    Wrong. We vaccinated it away. Same for 14 other diseases we vaccinate against. This is not working as well because rightys are stopping us from achieving herd. they are keeping the Trump virus alive and mutating. It did not have to be this way.

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    Hello ThatOwlWoman,

    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Agree. We have better tools now than we did when this began, to treat a COVID infection and save lives. But that's not the point. The point is the damage that being out of work for 10-14 days can do to both a family's finances and to the nation's as a whole. Our economy runs on consumption of goods. How are consumers going to be able to spend if they've been out sick, and can barely pay their necessary bills?
    Excellent point in addition to the irresponsible risk to human lives. Who knows what secondary infection could result in a death?

    COVID is like Pandora. Once you let it outta the box, it ain't goin back in.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    There seem to be two schools of thought on how to get through the pandemic.

    A) Take it very seriously. Take proper precautions. Adjust lifestyle to protect oneself and others. Change plans. Avoid large groups. Listen to experts and authorities, heed their advice. Practice safe measures to try to eliminate transmission of the disease. Take the vaccine. Avoid sharing air by use of distancing and masks. ( Thanks to ThatOwlWoman: ) "If you come down with a respiratory illness, get tested and if positive, stay home till well again."

    B) Call it all fake news. Blow off any advice from experts or authorities. Make up derogatory terms for the pandemic. Blame China. Claim no fear. Continue life as normal. Get an attitude of animosity towards experts, authorities, and others who are heeding government directives. Doubt the numbers and reports. Call it just the flu. Latch onto unverified fake treatments and prevention techniques. When others die, call them weak or claim they would have died anyway. Make fun of those who are following safety measures. Refuse the vaccine, but take credit for it if it helps your politics. Advocate for politicians to avoid taking any action to reduce deaths. Forge fake vaccine documentation if needed and try to lie your way past checkpoints. Claim that business/money is more important than lives.

    I think that just about covers the two sides. Discuss?
    It has been nearly two years since we began the war on Covid. Two years of shutdowns, masking, social distancing and shutting down businesses.

    After two years, we are still hearing the same bullshit arguments from morons in the Democraic Party of the Jackass, our government and idiots on the left who think that if we just keep doing what hasn't worked in two years, it will finally really work.

    This, my friends, is the definition of retarded.
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


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    Quote Originally Posted by NiftyNiblick View Post
    Tolerance of the intolerable has never been and will never be a virtue.

    The anti-vaxxers must be purged in swift, Draconian fashion
    or Covid will wipe out as significant a percentage of the overall popultion as the Bubonic Plague did centuries go.

    Once again America's most tragic failing flagrantly reveals itself: the belief that moderate measures can solve immoderate problems.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    Hello ThatOwlWoman,



    Excellent point in addition to the irresponsible risk to human lives. Who knows what secondary infection could result in a death?

    COVID is like Pandora. Once you let it outta the box, it ain't goin back in.
    It's a great wedge issue for the QOP. Notice how they're the ones drumming up the anti-mandate, anti-mask, anti-vax dance songs? It's advantageous to them politically to keep their idiots fired up about what isn't even a valid political issue.
    "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain

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    Quote Originally Posted by NiftyNiblick View Post
    This message is hidden because Truth Detector is on your ignore list.
    That's so weird. My computer says exactly the same thing, only not as fancy as yours does.
    "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain

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    Are you really that crazy?

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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    There seem to be two schools of thought on how to get through the pandemic.

    A) Take it very seriously. Take proper precautions. Adjust lifestyle to protect oneself and others. Change plans. Avoid large groups. Listen to experts and authorities, heed their advice. Practice safe measures to try to eliminate transmission of the disease. Take the vaccine. Avoid sharing air by use of distancing and masks. ( Thanks to ThatOwlWoman: ) "If you come down with a respiratory illness, get tested and if positive, stay home till well again."

    B) Call it all fake news. Blow off any advice from experts or authorities. Make up derogatory terms for the pandemic. Blame China. Claim no fear. Continue life as normal. Get an attitude of animosity towards experts, authorities, and others who are heeding government directives. Doubt the numbers and reports. Call it just the flu. Latch onto unverified fake treatments and prevention techniques. When others die, call them weak or claim they would have died anyway. Make fun of those who are following safety measures. Refuse the vaccine, but take credit for it if it helps your politics. Advocate for politicians to avoid taking any action to reduce deaths. Forge fake vaccine documentation if needed and try to lie your way past checkpoints. Claim that business/money is more important than lives.

    I think that just about covers the two sides. Discuss?
    There's Politalker's way, and then there's this:

    https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/

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    Hello ThatOwlWoman,

    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    It's a great wedge issue for the QOP. Notice how they're the ones drumming up the anti-mandate, anti-mask, anti-vax dance songs? It's advantageous to them politically to keep their idiots fired up about what isn't even a valid political issue.
    It's more than advantageous. It is essential. Without it, they are nothing. Powerless. And they know it.

    When a party absolutely depends on the votes of deplorable people, it is a deplorable party.

    It is the death party. The party which embraces death becomes the party of death.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    It's more than advantageous. It is essential. Without it, they are nothing. Powerless. And they know it.

    When a party absolutely depends on the votes of deplorable people, it is a deplorable party.

    It is the death party. The party which embraces death becomes the party of death.
    I've pondered on the ironic fact that for a party who claims to be "pro-life," their stance on pandemic mitigation measures is anything but.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    That's so weird. My computer says exactly the same thing, only not as fancy as yours does.
    You have to buy an upscale laptop next time you visit Harrods. That will take care of it.
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    Hello ThatOwlWoman,

    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    I've pondered on the ironic fact that for a party who claims to be "pro-life," their stance on pandemic mitigation measures is anything but.
    The Trump Party is the party of irony.

    They are only pro-life when it gets them votes.

    Then they become pro-death when it gets them votes.

    There is no concern for principles.

    The only concern is getting votes.

    Nothing else matters.

    "You can feel free to use my words against me." (Lindsey Graham)

    Lotta good that did.

    Maybe everybody in Congress should be under oath at all times!
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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    That shows that even with concentrated effort, it took centuries to eradicate smallpox. How long will it take to end Fauci plague? Bet it won't be months. So, let's end the bullshit measures get back to living and deal with it.
    See this is why you should have gotten education it would have saved you from embarrassing stupid comments like this smallpox was vaccinated away this is like civics 101

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