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Here's an interesting piece from NPR: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965703047/vaccines-could-drive-the-evolution-of-more-covid-19-mutants Things we know: Viruses can and do mutate in vaccinated individuals. The current COVID vaccine does not eliminate the COVID virus. It may inhibit their replication enough to reduce symptoms of the variant they are designed to be effective against, and may, to a lesser extent, lesson the symptoms of individuals infected with an adjacent variant. However, according to the scientists referenced here by NPR, the prevention of symptoms may have no correlation with the ability to spread. There is a possibility that you, as a vaccinated individual, may be gleefully skipping through your workplace, feeling no symptoms whatsoever, and spreading mutated virus aerosols under the illusion that you're not the one contributing to the pandemic. Perhaps someone in your workplace is unvaccinated with the latest variant booster, and is infected by your mutant variant. They begin to feel ill, pay attention to his/her body, and do the responsible thing by going home to isolate while allowing their body to function in the way it is designed. They might require the help of some supplements or long existing medications. Then they come back to work with a natural immunity that is superior in efficacy and duration. (https://www.merck.com/news/merck-discontinues-development-of-sars-cov-2-covid-19-vaccine-candidates-continues-development-of-two-investigational-therapeutic-candidates/) The pandemic continues as the virus mutates in both the vaccinated and unvaccinated, thus periodically requiring a new vaccine, or "booster" according to this NPR newscast. Of course, that will need to be strictly enforced. I have no doubt that you, personally, want to save lives and end the pandemic. You've just been misled about the way it needs to happen, by people who do not care about those things. https://www.newsweek.com/lambda-covid-variant-1000-cases-us-shows-vaccine-resistance-1615668 https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/business/covid-vaccine-billionaires/index.html

I stumbled on this 2016 RAND report while researching something completely different. If you want to be able to explain all of this to someone else in conversation, read this first. https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html

I realize some of you may have a hard-on for this person, so I'll remain open minded. After all, he's one of us and he seems like a reallyreallyreally nice guy. 😭 You could definitely leave him alone with your wife. My gut reaction when reading this tweet was "this dude is losing his shit", but that could be entirely mistaken. As I work through the possible explanations, It could be that he might be using a better dictionary that no one else has access to. Maybe he's a time traveller. I don't know, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Submitted for your consideration: None of you are patriots. ("probably") 😆 https://twitter.com/AdamKinzinger/status/1423649869470777346?s=20

That's a great mom joke! LOL. I love mom jokes.

No, you weren’t wondering that. But, you were using the word “principle” in the wrong context. Cheers. I’ve defended Congressman as much as I’ve critiqued him. But this... Can you imagine an aircraft commander crying in the midst of performing their primary duties? During a briefing? WTF. You can’t make rational decisions when you can’t contain your emotions.

https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1420047411838390272?s=20🙄

https://foia.state.gov/Search/Results.aspx?searchText=(F-2015-16287) AND (C05971792)

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/12/15/grand-county-covid-deaths/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Ah, shit. LOL. My fault. I got you and DosXX confused. You have the same positions. DosXX, my apologies. Negatory, I meant to insult you with that post. 😆 And I agree. These issues are somewhat important to me, but not enough to make permanent online enemies. I don’t want to go any further down that path. We’re only disagreeing on one or two issues. We’re not solving anything here. I’m going to try and keep that in perspective.

Mick Schumacher in at HAAS. Hope they can give him an awesome car. Magnussen leaving F1 for IMSA. https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.breaking-mick-schumacher-to-race-for-haas-in-2021-as-famous-surname-returns.66XTVfSt80GrZe91lvWVwJ.html

I hate to follow up my own post, but I had to stop this halfway through just to share it here. This is amazing. This vid has officially become my position. LOL

Not only do you create fake statistics, you create fake awards too! Well done. Way to be consistent!

You want a math problem? 😆 What is 300,000 COVID deaths minus 200,000 COVID deaths? Think you can wrap your head around that one, Capt Calculator?

How are you making these assumptions about what the risks are? The effectiveness? The only pieces of information you could possibly use to derive that conclusion are pharmaceutical company press releases. Remember this?

Great. I think your number is perfectly acceptable. Even though we've demonstrated we can wipe out flu deaths, you're willing to return that number to the historical norm to live a normal life. Me? I don't have a line. If I were to select an arbitrary number of deaths as being acceptable, you could easily argue "why not 1 less?" or "why not 1 more?". Which is what I'm doing with Prozac. I know it's an unwinnable debate. I just want to see if he'll throw a number out there. Sorry, Prozac. What I would say is there is a minimum level of freedom I will accept. I'm more than happy to make extraordinary efforts of my own accord to keep the people around me safe. I am not willing to give anyone else the authority to mandate it.

Ok, I misunderstood the extent of preventative measures you are in favor of. No lockdowns, but no schools, restaurants, or concerts, either. Fair? Apologies if I am again misunderstanding, but I think you're saying even after a vaccine arrives, you still believe there should still be severe restrictions. If we continue to have severe restrictions after the vaccine, is it really reasonable to say the economy will get back on its feet?

You sorta didn't answer the question. I don't want to put words in your mouth, but 200,000 is about where you draw the line. Less=unfortunate, but life goes on. More=Lock it down. Good news. You're correct. 65,000 doesn't have to be as high. The COVID response effectively eliminated flu deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–2020_United_States_flu_season So now let's say you get the vaccine and COVID is a non-issue. Are you cool going back to business as usual and accepting tens of thousands of flu deaths as a cost of living? If not, which precautionary measures would you make permanent?

Did you happen to look up the results for the states you listed? It seems like you're suggesting 10% is a "tight" race.

Did you take these same precautionary measures 1 year ago? If not, what was your personal magic number threshold? 65,000? https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm

Weird. I haven't been to a concert, but I've literally done all of those other things multiple times. I suppose the virus hasn't decided to lock the doors and turn off the lights where I live.

Ok. See ya.

Wanna take a wild guess as to why I might suspect that it’s possible you’re full of shit? 😂

Perfectly reasonable thing to say. I, too, would have targeted close Senate races. These close races typically occur in swing states. So, if we were to attempt to manipulate a close senate race in a swing state, which of the below Senate races would you have targeted? Georgia?