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  1. 7 minutes ago, SocialD said:

     

     

    What are we going to do, send them a letter telling them how mad we are at them?  

    I was just joking.   
     

    Gov and media will just cry about it for a few weeks.   Ain’t nothing gonna happen except Russia’s gonna get some new beachfront property.   

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  2. What about all of the million dollar TV ads USAA puts on during college football season...

     

     you know, an ad saying, “we are only for the military, but thanks for letting us spend millions to tell everyone that”

     

     

  3. 13 hours ago, Day Man said:

    concur...like "leadership" that spreads unfounded rumors around aviation incidents? you have less than 0 credibility.

    You have less than zero ability to read a thread that started out as stating it was a rumor, and then proceeded to say,  “thoughts?”

     

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  4. 15 hours ago, Lord Ratner said:

    That has nothing to do with the vaccine and everything to do with obesity rates.

     

    It's not strange at all, really.

    Interesting how much cancer and myocarditis and miscarriages have risen in the military demographic.   Which isn’t as obese as the rest of the USA.

  5. 18 hours ago, ViperMan said:

    So our vaccines are worse, then? I've been reliably told that we have the best vaccines and boosters. Because COVID is killing us at 20x that of South Korea and Japan...that not strange?

    Yea.  The best vaccine for covid is a dead virus, or having had covid.   The mRNA stuff messes with your body’s ability to make a true antibody.  

  6. 6 minutes ago, ViperMan said:

    What's up @Negatory. I guess it's a perception error, but you honestly came across like that. So, no, I'm not trying to misrepresent you. In our discussion (back then) it was pretty clear to me that what was being implied was that there was going to be mass death right around the corner. I stated that I did not buy that BS for a variety of reasons. Also, you could have, you know, responded with what you actually meant four days ago if I "misrepresented" you. Instead you waited until now to figure out that's not what you meant back then??? You can see how I'm (still) confused. How about you explain what you meant by 15% (or 30% as you quoted), and what this other pretext was. In any case, I'm not arguing fallaciously, and you are welcome to clarify.

    If you had been context switching between Omicron infecting a million people a day and then back to vanilla COVID morting 5-15%, then I missed the fact that there were two separate and distinct points being made - so yeah, that's my perception problem. But I will admit that I went back and read the stuff from just prior to Christmas, and it is not clear that you were talking about two different bugs. That said, you did recognize that the data showed Omicron was highly infectious, but not as deadly - so I'll take that one.

    Anyway, here's the big picture I take away from our previous conversation after having been removed from it for a while:

    1. There is one group (you, et al) who are willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the PTB re: COVID measures.
    2. There's another group (includes me) who is done with the charade and all things "unserious."

    I mean you have people that are fine with measures being taken that were known (or thought) to be ineffective simply as a means to "do" something (I'm one who thinks masks have a limited personal effect; zero societal effect). Many people, including me, think forcing people to do things for show is anti-American. That's where I'm coming from. And besides that philosophical point, I'll say it's worth a moment's consideration to think about the implication of having the perception that something works, even though it actually doesn't, and then implementing it as policy. Do you think those types of misconceptions will lead people to take more or less appropriate risks? What will then be the actual real-world outcome of that policy? More or less infection? Seems clear to me what the answer is, but yet...

    Others accept at face value that "COVID" is "killing" 20x more Americans than in other nations. Apparently you need to be some kind of "expert" to notice that is an odd thing and to raise it as a question. Or perhaps this, the fact that in California (of all places) they held the Super Bowl mostly mask-less (https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2022/02/face-masks-were-handed-out-at-the-super-bowl-but-few-fans-wore-them.html). Where was the enforcement? Why was this acceptable? My bet is that it was cool because there was a lot of money involved in it for CA. I would like to be a fly on the wall during some of the conversations between NFL executives and the CA government (https://www.wtok.com/2022/01/05/nfl-looks-contingency-sites-super-bowl-amid-covid-19/).

    Anyway, it was these sorts of arguments that were (and still are) being made. My point now is the same as what it was then: This is now mostly about signaling/control, Omicron wasn't (isn't) going to kill everyone, and it's time to stop panicking and go back to (actual) normal. Stop the fear-based arguments and justifications for normalizing restrictions, lack of freedom, and unquestioned acceptance of authority. We are creating a generation of young children who are scared shitless of COVID though they are not at risk whatsoever, and are going to grow up more neurotic than they already were going to be.

    We have different vaccines than most of the world.

     

    we also don’t let drs prescribe certain medicines that might help.   Ivermectin, for one.   
     

     

    these things might account for a 20x morality rate.   

  7. On 2/10/2022 at 10:41 PM, MCO said:

    I wouldn’t do any of those things, and I’m against mandates. But who cares if someone wants to wear a mask on their own? I saw it all the time in Japan pre-pandemic and no one cared. I don’t understand the rage it causes. Just like I don’t understand the rage not wearing a mask causes. 
     

    Why can’t people just do what they want?

    Yes.  People should do what they want.   
     

    I think it causes rage in the current situation when it’s mandatory...yet it’s only really mandatory if everyone is a lemming and follows the rule blindly, with no common sense.  
     

    it’s also frustrating to see society as a whole, so afraid because of the lies we are spewed 

  8. 3 hours ago, pawnman said:

     

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    Co soldering the only PLAT video made public is one with what seems to be a movie playing in the background and only includes the very tail end of the crash and the Carrier folks yelling to pull up.... 

     

    yes, there’s still a chance.    I’m open to both possibilities.   Some of you like to just toe the gubment line and be told what to think.    

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  9. In the 3rd post In the thread, I talk about being in the AF.    So please don’t act like I was trying to pull some wool over your eyes.   
     

    I even asked for thoughts on the rumor.   
     

    the one thing I could have done better would have been putting quotes around it.

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  10. I specifically said.  

    F35 navy crash rumor?

     

    In the thread title.    Then I posted the rumor     
     

    I can’t help it that you guys open threads without Reading the title and then just post the first thing that pops into your peas brains 

     

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  11. On 2/6/2022 at 9:53 AM, pawnman said:

    @Bennynova, anything to say for yourself?

    I posted a RUMOR.   It was not my friend, nor am I in the navy.    Thread title said RUMOR.

     

    it was to get to truth.

     

    so I have to say, you need to read better.

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  12. 1 hour ago, Standby said:

    I think you are onto something. Take notes future wingmen…if a major screw-up is impending, don’t forget to complain about chest pains and yell “fucking vaccine” before doing whatever it is you were about to do. 

    Don’t forget to cover it up too.  Just let the “process take place.”    Don’t save any lives by getting the truth out.   The leadership will get the “truth” out for us.

  13. I personally don’t have many friends (especially in the Air Force, who are vaccinated)...so I don’t have many opportunities to actually talk to someone candidly who’s had the vaccine.   And that probably wouldn’t matter anyhow, because if there are adverse effects, it certainly doesn’t affect a large % of people.

     

    perhaps it’s just because I’ve come to surround myself with people of the same beliefs as me, but I personally know about 25 active duty AF officers who all are currently unvaccinated.   They are also people that I text or see on a weekly basis.   

     

     

  14. Many of you have seen the topic of the recent F35 crash being discussed, along with statements supposedly made by the pilot right before he ejected that he was having chest pains.  As skeptical of everything that has to do with the vaccine as I am, even I thought the reporting on this was BS hyperbole.  Until about 30 minutes ago, that is. . .  I commanded an F/A-18 squadron in the 2007-2010 time frame, and a good friend of mine who was also a Hornet squadron commander and Airboss afterwards just called to tell me that he heard the unedited PLAT tape with his own ears, and before ejecting the pilots says: "I'm experiencing sudden and intense chest pain as if someone hit me in the chest with a baseball bat. Fucking vaccine!"  Again - even though I'd seen reporting along these lines over a week ago, I discounted it as BS.  But it's not. . .  UFB!
     

     

    anyone see this?

       Made up, or some truth?

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  15. On 1/28/2022 at 12:53 AM, Prozac said:

    Merely shedding light on the fact that many here are willing to accept these institutions as the gold standard in their day to day without batting an eyelash, yet throw them under the bus when it suits their political agenda. The point seems lost on more than a few. 

    That’s a bit of hyperbole.   We aren’t FORCED to buy/use anything.   But now we are for these mandated experimental vaccines.    
     

    it’s not a double standard when we actually have the freedom to pick and choose what we want to put into our bodies.    

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  16. Any truth to this?    Thoughts?

     

    Many of you have seen the topic of the recent F35 crash being discussed, along with statements supposedly made by the pilot right before he ejected that he was having chest pains.  As skeptical of everything that has to do with the vaccine as I am, even I thought the reporting on this was BS hyperbole.  Until about 30 minutes ago, that is. . .  I commanded an F/A-18 squadron in the 2007-2010 time frame, and a good friend of mine who was also a Hornet squadron commander and Airboss afterwards just called to tell me that he heard the unedited PLAT tape with his own ears, and before ejecting the pilots says: "I'm experiencing sudden and intense chest pain as if someone hit me in the chest with a baseball bat. Fucking vaccine!"  Again - even though I'd seen reporting along these lines over a week ago, I discounted it as BS.  But it's not. . .  UFB!

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