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sirfrogsworth · 6 months
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People are talking about not voting for Biden.
Again.
I'm just so tired of this argument.
I just can't do Trump again.
I can't.
His incompetence killed so many people. A panel estimated 40% of COVID deaths could have been averted.
One of those deaths was my mother.
She was killed because people didn't trust the vaccines and they didn't think masks were worth the inconvenience. That man could have gone on TV and said "This is the Trump vaccine and it is great." He could have sold fucking MAGA masks on his website. He had 100% influence over his dipshit followers and could have used that for the greater good. But he was too vain to wear a mask in public and bungled the vaccine rollout.
And now I worry some of my trans loved ones may not make it through another far right administration. They have this giant target on their back right now and conservatives seem determined to eradicate as many trans lives as possible.
I wrote a whole ass post about how I didn't care for Biden. I still don't. But when I try to imagine what a right wing administration would be doing right now... that seems like it would be a nightmare orders of magnitude worse than the current nightmare.
As someone with an untreatable chronic illness, I know the feeling of being presented with choices where all of them suck. And I have had to survive by choosing the least sucky option over and over.
It feels bad every single time.
I hate it.
And I still fucking choose.
It should be different. There should be better choices. I shouldn't have to choose the least bad thing among all bad things.
But there are people and things in this world I feel are worth sticking around for, so I continue to choose the least sucky thing.
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Nancy Pelosi Military Tribunal, 👇 Part I
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(Due to the length of this article, I am separating it into parts. I will try to get the 2nd part published this evening.)
Thirteen hours over two days is how long it took Vice Adm. Darse E. Crandall of the United States Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps to present evidence against former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whom a 3-officer panel found guilty of treason, seditious conspiracy, and conspiracy to commit murder late Thursday afternoon.
In an opening statement, the admiral said JAG and the Office of Military Commissions had copious evidence linking Pelosi to crimes dating back to 1987 but, for time’s sake, would focus only on her most recent and egregious offenses, starting with a 2016 murder-for-hire plot to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump. He said JAG was aware of many nefarious schemes to end Trump’s life–all of which were bungled or foiled–and had incontrovertible evidence tying Pelosi to four.  Moreover, Adm. Crandall told the panel he would prove beyond reasonable doubt that Pelosi in 2018 hatched a plot to kidnap Barron Trump to force Donald Trump’s resignation, so Pence would be the new president. Pelosi, Vice Adm. Crandall said, had even considered having Melania or Ivanka murdered in hopes of forcing a tormented Trump from office.
Furthermore, he said Pelosi shared responsibility with the late Gavin Newsom in locking down California and enforcing draconian vaccine mandates that sickened or killed countless residents of the Golden State. Pelosi’s “Covid crimes,” he intoned, violated the Constitution of the United States; they affronted the very people she had sworn to serve. But as persons withered and died—not from Covid but from the clot shot —and families grieved, Pelosi grew in wealth and power, immeasurably so. When she wasn’t wielding an iron fist, she was clutching the bottle, Vice Adm. Crandall said, and informed the panel witness statements and Pelosi’s own documents would give credence to JAG’s allegations.
“This woman isn’t even vaccinated,” Vice Adm. Crandall said, pointing at Pelosi. “We know this because we pulled her blood, and we can test. She eschewed her own mandates. Why? Because she knew the vaccines were dangerous, and we’ll prove that.”
When offered a chance to give her own opening statement, Pelosi, appearing sans counsel, pursed her lips and kept quiet. She was disheveled and seemed distraught, her shriveled, bony fingers visibly trembling as bloodshot eyes scanned the court.
Vice Admiral Crandall introduced a witness, a 29-year-old Latin male named Xavier Ramirez, who, having been sworn in, described himself as Pelosi’s former gigolo and “boy toy.” He testified under oath that he had regularly “entertained” Pelosi between April and July of 2016, usually at upscale hotels in the San Francisco area. Mr. Ramirez said he hadn’t documented each meeting, but guessed he saw Pelosi 15 times.
“I hope you were paid well, Mr. Ramirez,” Vice Adm. Crandall quipped.
“Very well,” the witness replied.
“I’ve never seen this man before in my life,” Pelosi shouted at the top of her lungs, her voice gravelly and hoarse.
The admiral reprimanded her outburst, saying she could either exercise decorum or be physically restrained.
“Mr. Ramirez, when we first spoke, you mentioned a specific meeting on a certain date. If you would, would you please repeat what you said, to the best of your recollection,” Vice Adm. Crandall said.
“It was July 21, 2016. Nancy was in a bad way because Mr. Donald Trump just accepted the Republican nomination. Trump this, Trump that was all she talked about. She paid me, so I listened. She was drinking, of course. Nancy likes to drink. She is a big drinker, a habitual drinker, to say it in a nice way. So, the more she drinks, the more she talks—”
“—While we appreciate your colorful tale, could you please be briefer, come to the point,” Vice Adm. Crandall said.
“The point, yes; she said she wanted to kill Donald Trump,” the witness said.
“Kill or have killed?”
“Well, have killed; she certainly wasn’t doing it herself. Nancy asked me do I know someone, because I am Cuban, I must know someone, she told me. And there I am thinking to myself why I should know a hitman just because I’m Cuban. I thought maybe she joked and asked if she was kidding, but, no, Nancy was dead serious. She offered me $25k cash in advance to find someone. Nancy said if I did, and it got done, I’d get $225K more and the person who kill Trump get $250K. Then she laughs and says to me if Trump has too much protection, she can do the daughter—you know, tall, pretty blonde, Ivanka.”
Vice Admiral asked if Mr. Ramirez had seen or handled the $25,000.
“I saw it come out of her purse. Banded stacks $1000 each. I saw it, I touched it, but I did not take. I told her, ‘You’re Nancy Pelosi, you must have powerful friends. I want nothing to do with this,’ and she tells me, and this I remember very well, ‘This time it has to be an outside party.’ I tell her flatly that’s not why I am here,” Mr. Ramirez explained.
“And I assume, Mr. Ramirez, the ‘services’ you performed for the defendant didn’t cost 25 grand,” Vice Adm. Crandall said.
Mr. Ramirez laughed. “No, I wish, but much less, and she paid me in advance.”
“Did you bring your concerns to the Secret Service, to the police?”
“Are you crazy? No. If she could kill Trump, I could get killed like a fly on the wall. When I left, it was last time I saw her,” Mr. Ramirez said.
“Yet the defendant claims she’s never seen you before today. But we know that’s untrue,” Vice Adm. Crandall said.
He projected onto a large screen television digital images he had obtained from the witness. One clearly showed Pelosi and Mr. Ramirez hugging in a hotel room; another showed them standing side-by-side, smiling at a camera. “These are ‘selfies’ you took in the defendant’s company, is that correct?”
“That’s correct,” Mr. Ramirez said.
“Why did you take them?”
“Bragging rights.”
Vice Adm. Crandall snorted. “I really don’t think that’s something to brag about, Mr. Ramirez. You’re excused.”
The admiral addressed the panel: “This alone is solicitation for murder, which in traditional courts carries up to a 20-year sentence. In this case, we’re talking about a presidential candidate. And we’re by no means done.”
As Soon as I get more I will post it.🤔
It's coming in parts so bear with me.🙏
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notbeingnoticed · 3 months
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Thanks to years of chronic dishonesty and bungling from our public health “experts” on COVID, this is now something the nation actually has to worry about.
Why?
Because the rate of measles vaccinations for kids has plummeted.
Our soi-disant experts utterly incinerated their credibility in their panicked, confused belief that what the nation needed was people at the top issuing lots of orders.
This fed into an already strong subculture of vaccine-hating loons like RFK Jr. and Jenny McCarthy.
And so measles is poised to make a comeback, as small decreases in vaccination rates can have massive impacts on disease spread.
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We all know how you feel about Trump and I think most of us feel the same way. But I'm seriously curious if there is ANYthing that he did as president or that his administration did that you can praise or at least see some positive part of from your view point as a historian?
Believe it or not, I was totally supportive of President Trump's meetings with Kim Jong Un. I don't think it is a mistake for our leaders to meet directly with our rivals or potential adversaries. I understand the geopolitical strategy that suggests that by unconditionally meeting face-to-face with North Korea's leaders we are somehow validating their actions or normalizing them on the international stage. However, I disagree with that argument. The Kim dynasty has been in complete control of North Korea for 70 years and the American policy of diplomatic isolation has not changed that fact. If what we've been doing for generations has not been working, why not attempt something radically different?
The United States didn't lift the sanctions against North Korea or really do anything different other than having our President sit down with their leader. I have always believed that the U.S. should be open to dialogue with countries or systems that we disagree with. President Obama's meetings with Raúl Castro and visit to Cuba was another example of dialogue that should have happened decades ago. I had hoped President Clinton might meet with Iranian President Mohammad Khatami when it seemed like there was a possibility for an opening in the late-1990s. It's impossible for any sort of diplomacy to blossom without some form of dialogue, and Presidents are in a unique position to shape those conversations if they are willing to start them. So, there you go, I thought Trump's meetings with Kim Jong Un were a positive.
(Now, with that said, I think it's disconcerting that Trump was so anxious to share the letters that Kim sent to him with reporters while seeming to work very hard at keeping his own end of the correspondence from becoming public.)
I also think the Trump Administration deserves some credit for the Abraham Accords, which aren't perfect but still a meaningful start for normalizing diplomatic relations between Israel and several Arab nations, especially since it established a formal connection between the Israelis and Emiratis, which is a potential game-changer economically and for security issues in the Middle East.
Some people might also give the Trump Administration some credit for kickstarting the process of developing and approving COVID vaccines in record time, but it's difficult to give the Administration credit for anything related to a pandemic that they bungled in historic fashion. It's worth noting that they also had basically no plan for the logistics of actually vaccinating anybody in this country. I mean, if I discovered a house full of starving children (I don't know how or why that would happen) and cooked a bunch of food for them in record time, I wouldn't get credit for it if I didn't actually feed them, right?
Please excuse that ridiculous analogy -- I'm dizzy and nauseous from having to give Trump's Administration credit for anything. Please don't ask me to try to do that again. We will now return to our regularly scheduled programming.
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realhankmccoy · 2 months
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Q: So now that you figured out the Trump 5 are conservative, what's their future?
A: Increasingly conservative in all the clockwork, tiresome, stupid ways that come straight out of Sean Hannity's brain or whatever. I imagine Brocuck and Babycuck eventually joining Dadcuck and Brucecuck on 'vaccines is killing you' and 'climate change is just someting they made up so they can take control of you' and 'blacks spend too much women on shoes' and 'women are the real abusers and are turning young boys into gays and trans' (my dad likes to argue that my mother turned me gay, Bruce likes to post a video a of big fat mask-wearing women angrily destroying some rebellious young redneck in the classroom).
All of them have quite a bit of room to run still as they cuck themselves to the patriarchy and its lies. Consider it this way -- Babydad and Babycuck still think they're mostly Democrats, and Brocuck still thinks he's a purple pill, and Brucecuck still thinks the reason he's a wimp who can't workout is because of the Democrats
These people are all myriad forms of stupid, I mean so much stupidity going on because when you're deeply a cuck and unable to accept
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
for anything at all in life, there's a huge amount of blaming and they start by blaming gays, blacks and women for why
THE WONDERBREAD DiD NOT RISE PROPERLY
they have no clue why they're the smooshed Wonderbread on the shelf like everyone else is what I'm saying.
so yes, in their cucked brains
there's a huge amount of room left to run
they think of themselves as basically martyrs, saints, incredibly generous people because they see themselves as like still 50% Democrat and they think this is 50% levels of impurity in the flawless Wonderbread they're supposed to be if they weren't sacrificing all the time
meanwhile they never actually sacrifice shit, they're total takers and just every moment of their day is them deluding themselves into thinking they're taking action, they're giving, they have talent in the things they do
you know? that's what fundamentally lying to yourself about how everything you do is superior gets ya
just being a weaker than shit baby who's producing very inferior YouTube videos and very inferior erotica and very inferior social commentary and very inferior parenting etc. etc. etc.
Fundamentally, they seek the polar opposite of the truth and their bias and shallow baby selfishness always ensures they find the lie.
There's a lot of lies left to find as they continue to bungle.
These are TYPICAL American assholes and will continue to follow the typical pattern of aging and decay into self-induglent babyhood and stupidity
this means like the Typical
they are more conservative today than they were 5 years ago
and they will be more conservative 5 years ago than they are today
they will always be stupider 5 years from now than they are today even if Baby manages to pronounce Capitalisism without tripping over his words, even if Baby adds Red Osier Dogwood to his repertoire
fundamentally, they'll be more in the grips of the forces that cucked them and more roooted to the spot it doesn't take a Cassandra to see that these cucks are on a track of somebody else's design And will usefully idiotize themselves right on schedule
most of the ride will sound like this:
WAAAAH! WAAAAH! BLACKS WOMEN MEXICANS AND GAYS!!!! WAAAAAH!
now, some conservatives get hung up on just one or two of the bunch -- this is how they lie to themselves and think they're doing serious social commentary
usually, they get hung up on WOMEN AND GAYS WAAAAH!!!! WAAAAAH!!!
because their prejudice and wealth is such that their solution to Mexicans and Blacks is
MOVE AWAY FROM EM AND REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEY EXIST AND WHEN YOU DO ACNKOWLEDGE IT, ACT LIKE THERE'S JUST SO GODDAMN MANY OF THEM THESE DAYS THAT YOU WOULD BE SHOCKED IF YOU SAW IT FOR YOURSELF HANK
anyhow truly what a bunch of scumbags Babycuck, Brocuck, Brucecuck, and Dadcuck were in the most typically cucked American ways
and absolutely my life is more vibrant and rational without a bunch of idiots never figuring out what a man is and endlessly shitting their pants and being driven around by their anxities 'evils' of Blacks, Mexicans, Women and Gays
and then they wonder why i find them so physically repulsive? Because the soul takes a toll on how others see you physically and besides, even in the way they take photos of themselves, you can see how dull and dead they are. it's not like 'oh here's a person who is comfortable and capable with a range of human expression for the benefit of others'
it's always this constipated desire of the Wonderbread bag to try to look best on the shelf
and when they all do that and they can't even get the Duchenne smile, i mean part of you does feel sorry for children being so goddamn incompetent and formulaic
well, enough about conventional people who cucked their whole lives away and will continue to do so
one is always better off pondering somebody who's about the polar opposite of those cucks, somebody they seemingly have nothing in common with -- somebody with a loose spirit like Oscar Wilde or Isadora Duncan.
what these cucks have is a tight, hidebound, Nietzsche-trying-to-shit-out-a-turd spirit -- always such a constipation to conservative lifestyles, because they don't even drink enough water and get enough walking in to shit properly
hard supermarket pebbles
i mean one could say that the motormouth style of Trump, Carlson, Hannity is diarrhea but sometimes in sicknesses constipation alternates with diarrhea so it's a constipated, closed mind that becomes an endless flow of shitbag ideological, predictable slurry.
Dadcuck, Babycuck, Brucecuck, and Brocuck are nothing if not completely predictable. Never have I made a mistake in how simple and predictable they are... they're just so unimaginative as people that they can't come up with anything and the least predictable moments are the ones where they try to copy me, I guess
but that's still predictable because obviously i came up with it first it's like when you play chess against somebody and they don't know what to do so they're copying your moves you're never like OOH THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING
and when you play those games it's a waste of your time because it starts to rub off on you, their incompetence as a player and you feel like you're just in the kiddie pool of suburbia playing a chess game with whatever random know-nothing
predictable people with no innovation can't bring anything into the world they can only replicate the world as is
they can only replicate the world Trump wants to see replicated
and i find that really, really tiresome but also worthy of shutting down and disrupting just like anybody who's a dietician can say there's a better way than just eating Wonderbread all the time
honestly, i'd respect em more if they wore a literal MAGA hat rather than yearing for the power of MAGA just like the dupes in erotic stories i'd write
because at least wearing a literal MAGA hat would take more balls and generate more self-awareness in them and i really mean that -- they're that stupid that they truly don't see how they're lying to themselves and pursing a path of dishonesty
they can't wear the hat though because they're convinced themselves that they're genius social analysts with an independent, objective spirit -- which is especially absurd coming from these 4, like when your dopy kid brother or some spoiled guy who went to Christian school or somebody living with their parents thinks suddenly
IM A SOCIAL SCIENTIST MOMMY I CANT EVEN STAND ON MY OWN TWO LEGS OR KNOW HUMAN BEINGS ARE OUTSIDE THE HOUSE BUT I KNOW HOW ALL 8 BILLION PEOPLE ON EARTH SHOULD 'FIX' THINGS ITS REALLY QUITE SIMPLE ITS REALLY MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN ITS REALLY WHAT TRUMP IS SAYING ABOUT TRADITION ABOUT THE WAY THINGS WERE BEFORE CROOKED HILLARY
these people just have no clue what's going on with humanity all they know is the dehumanising mind of the hidebound cuck they're the stick in the mud that gets dragged and they think you're mean for doing it not realising that you're prefer they at least picked up the pace even if you understand they're far too dumb and lazy and blind to ever be an equal on matters of generosity, intellect, storytelling, physical fitness, responsibility, innovation, independence, countercultural activity, dancing, progressive activity, understanding of antiquity, museumgoing, athleticism, experiencing the world, writing love letters, basically everything and what have you
in their Ralph Wiggum voice, you do have a lot of sort of feeling sorry for them in your heart which does make me vulnerable to thinking these idiots are human beings just in need of a little help I mean Ralph Wiggum is human
it does frustate me sometimes that so much wasted Wonderbread doesn't seem to be good at anything
but would i want them to be good at anything? it's probably better that these people lack talents because if they had talents and spewed their stupidity on how the world should be, that would just further reduce the talent and motivation levels of everybody who gets exposed to their shit
i guess one of em has a talent right a true talent he's ONE OF THE BEST AT KILLING A BIG DEER enough to make into a number of newspapers yeah kids, did you realise i'm related to a reclusive celebrity? it's a capitalistic trade secret how he shot that big one dead biggest in 20 years
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anthonybialy · 2 months
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Generation Ex
Experience is the best indicator, which means Democrats ought to be in big trouble.  Professional business loathers should be nearly out of business themselves.  They think that would prove their point.
The present onslaught of incessant annoyance should create a generation of government-loathers.  Every generation ideally faces institutions with institutionalized contempt.  Arrogant twits bossing you around hating your attitude is the best reason to maintain it.
People born in every year eventually find themselves old enough to get hassled for not contributing enough to the collective for the sin of existing as an individual.  Those taxed in every sense are supposed to be thankful for the privilege, which is naturally exercised involuntarily.  You don’t want to risk screwing up a decision with your counterproductive free will.
An extra concentrated dose of harassment from the soullessly monolithic entity that can’t protect you from a rotten flu is not good for any sense of health.  Enjoy a full life in your pod where nothing’s legal but cannabis, which is unhelpful for treating symptoms except for shielding oneself from how bad legalizers made everything.
Attempting a sequel of the worst feature isn’t just for Avatar.  Unlike a cinema trip, you’re not presented with the option to decline.  Contemptuous scorn was a nice touch as compliant liberals mocked your rights being taken as they used absolute power to bungle an infection that would have been properly addressed by chicken soup, DayQuil, and Sprite.
Decree enthusiasts are coincidentally the same pompous dolts who sneer at attempts to outrageously assert that rights and currency are not issued by the government.  Office-fillers who don’t know the economy gets worse the more that’s ripped off from it are suddenly experts on epidemiology.
Attempting to stop a virus by imprisoning humans epitomizes compassionate knowledge.  Melding the mind with the heart is our ultimate goal, and we should possess enough enlightenment to know whether it actually happens doesn’t matter.  Do you want to be a good liberal or not?
A cagey infection found its way around barriers.  Panicky fascists were wrong at every single moment about an indifferent escaped bioweapon.  China’s ineptness is our best defense.  Guilt paired with phrenology-level pseudoscience led to the guilted suckering of getting a shot during the most masked time in history, which differs from getting vaccinated.
Aspiring benevolent dictators require absolute authority to ruin the economy.  It’s  really your fault if you’re poor for stubbornly refusing to relinquish the last of your petty individual rights.  That’s as close as liberals get to personal responsibility.
Trying to avoid tradeoffs leads to the worst deal possible.  Existence gets more woeful the more they can control, which almost resembles a pattern.  The state’s fans assure us perseverance is all bliss needs.  We just need to maintain faith until the breakthrough when treating property as communal lets everyone have as much as they want.
The past few especially pushy years have just been a drugged-out version of normal abnormal federal shadiness.  Active bothering leads to widespread lethargy, and this speedball leads to neither speed nor a ball.
Very helpful ushers of prosperity take autonomy on top of your cash.  You’re left with the sense of guilt for daring to want to retain funds that you toiled to acquire.  Refusing to facilitate corruption constitutes the most shameful audacity.
Present sophisticated theories about authority lead to  addresses everything but government’s actual responsibility, which is to halt stampeding barbarians.  Liberals are too busy tracking down successful CEOs they deem villains to focus on what they consider inconsequential threats like subway track-shovers and global terror merchants.
Everyone should be sick of being told what to do by people who should be told to not do that.  Forced cooperation leads to universal misery.  That is not the thing we were told would be shared.  Anyone capable of interpreting stimuli can’t possibly still think eliminating choice leads to one glorious option.
The only thing more exhausting than being suspicious of everything is the aftermath of docile trust.  Any humans who are unfortunately not cynical by nature better start conditioning themselves.
The good news is that there’s not much training necessary.  A few moments on this wretched planet noticing countless infringements on life proceeding normally should be sufficient for incessant rebellion. Instead, baffling state fans are incredulous regarding companies with which they can interact freely while trusting the unaccountable monolith.
Please enjoy ample current ghastly examples for those who think history means switching from the “following” tab to “for you”.  Maybe enjoy isn’t the proper word.  Claiming to believe in science takes some nerve while ignoring an endless parade of evidence about how surrendering liberty leads to awful morons making dreadful decisions on your behalf.
Trusting authority is the most mortifying conspiracy to believe.  Liberal policy creates contempt for liberalism.  So, it works in its way.  Government doing everything but arresting whoever mugged you leads to getting robbed by those who claim they do so with legal authority.  They need your permission.  Keep letting them think for yourself if you think they’ve made you richer.
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oakkayblog · 1 year
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Viewpoint: Did health officials bungle by embracing mRNA vaccines at the expense of J&J’s single shot? — Genetic Literacy Project
Viewpoint: Did health officials bungle by embracing mRNA vaccines at the expense of J&J’s single shot? — Genetic Literacy Project
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agreenroad · 2 years
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Dr. Simone Gold RELEASED from prison following bogus prosecution – Dr. Eddy Bettermann MD
Dr. Simone Gold RELEASED from prison following bogus prosecution – Dr. Eddy Bettermann MD
In case you missed it, Dr. Gold appeared on the steps of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to talk about how the plandemic was being bungled. Americans were not allowed access to hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) or ivermectin at the height of the plandemic, and Dr. Gold spoke out about it. She also spoke out against Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccines,” warning about their dangers and urging people to…
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rudohzo · 2 years
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The U.S. Failed Miserably on COVID-19. Canada Shows It Didn't Have to Be That Way
#The United States failed to fight the virus#K-pop band BTS has met with US President Joe Biden at the White House
This is the number of Americans who would be alive today if the United States had the same per capita death rate from COVID-19 as our northern neighbor, Canada.
In the U.S., President Trump in striking contrast declared that he would not be wearing a mask, saying “I don’t think I will be doing it…I just don’t see it”. And instead of reinforcing the messages of Dr. Anthony Fauci and other leading public health officials, Trump actively undermined them, declaring in reference to stay-at-home orders in some states, “I think elements of what they’ve done are just too tough.” Not content with undercutting his top public health advisers, President Trump further undermined public confidence in science by suggesting “cures” for COVID-19, including at one point ingesting bleach and taking hydroxychloroquine, a drug that research confirmed had no efficacy as a COVD-19 treatment.
These divergent responses at the national level were to shape responses at the state and provincial level of the U.S. and Canada, respectively, as well as the response of the public. By the beginning of July 2020, the impact of these divergent responses was already visible, with Canada’s death rate just 60 percent of the American rate. As Canada’s more stringent public health measures—which included larger and stricter stay-at-home orders, closure of restaurants, gyms, and other businesses, curfews, and limits on public gatherings—took effect, the gap between the two countries widened even more. By October 2020, the per capita death rate in Canada had dropped to just 40 percent of the rate in the U.S.
It is tempting to blame America’s disastrous response to COVID-19 on Trump, and there is no question that he bungled the situation. But the pandemic revealed deep fault lines in America’s institutions and culture that would have made effective responses difficult no matter who was in the White House. Had Barack Obama, for example, been in office when COVID-19 arrived, he, too, would have faced the country without a national health care system, one with deep distrust of government, exceptionally high levels of poverty and inequality, sharp racial divisions, a polarized polity, and a culture with a powerful strand of libertarianism at odds with the individual sacrifices necessary for the collective good.
The differences between the U.S. and Canada became even more starkly visible on the issue of vaccines. The U.S., which had purchased a massive supply of vaccines in advance, was initially far ahead, with 21 percent of Americans and only 2 percent of Canadians vaccinated by April 1, 2021. The U.S. was still ahead in July, but by October 1, 74 percent of Canadians were fully vaccinated, compared to just 58 percent of Americans. Part of the difference no doubt resides in the superior access provided by Canada’s system of universal, publicly funded healthcare. But equally, if not more important, is the far greater trust Canadians have in their national government: 73 percent versus 50 percent in the U.S. Coupled with greater vaccine resistance in the U.S., the net result is a vast gap in the proportion of the population that is not fully vaccinated: 32 percent in the U.S., but 13 percent in Canada.
Also implicated in the far higher COVID-19 death rate in the U.S. is the simple fact that Americans are less healthy than Canadians. Lacking a system of universal healthcare and plagued by unusually high levels of class and racial inequality, Americans are more likely to have pre-existing medical conditions associated with death from COVID. Americans have an obesity rate of 42 percent versus 27 percent for Canadians and a diabetes rate of 9.4 percent versus 7.3 percent for Canadians. Overall, the health of Canadians is superior and they live longer lives, with an average life expectancy of 82.2 years compared to 78.3 years in the U.S.
Exacerbating these differences in health are the deep cultural differences between the two countries. More than three decades ago, the sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset noted in Continental Divide that the ideologies of anti-statism and individualism were far more resonant in the U.S. than in Canada. For the many Americans influenced by the powerful libertarian strand in American culture and by its elaborate right-wing media apparatus, masks were a violation of freedom and vaccines a form of tyranny. Canada, which produced a trucker convoy that shut down the nation’s capital, is not immune to such sentiments. But they were far more pervasive in the U.S. and led to a degree of non-compliance with the government and public health officials that had no parallel in Canada; to take but one example, the percent of Canadians wearing masks in January 2022 when the Omicron variant was at its height was 80 percent compared to just 50 percent in the U.S.
Following a national disaster of this magnitude, there must be a serious inquiry into what happened and how it might be prevented or mitigated in the future. This is what the nation did after the attack on September 11, forming a Commission that issued a major report within two years of its formation. Surely a pandemic that has taken the lives of more than one million Americans warrants a report of at least equal seriousness. But in the current atmosphere of intense political partisanship, it might be better if such an investigation were conducted by a nongovernmental entity composed of distinguished citizens and experts, or by a non-political body such as the National Academy of Sciences. But whatever form such a commission might take, it must address a pressing question: why so many countries, including Canada, proved so much more effective in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. We could—and should—learn from their experiences, so that the U.S. does better when the next pandemic arrives.
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drugwindow22 · 2 years
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They Had been Asked 3 Questions on Health... It's A great Lesson
With the assistance of my approach coach, we've been in a position to totally maximize my yoga training into my energy coaching as nicely. 건마 robbed him of the power of speech. Chin-Hong says San Francisco is "super immune" proper now, with one in all the best vaccination charges in the nation and an antibody increase from latest wave of infections from Omicron's BA.1 version. Chin-Hong stated. "I have a look at these tendencies pretty much day by day, and SF used to be amongst the lowest, and now it is amongst the best" in phrases of new cases. As circumstances rise, people will keep home and will keep their children residence from faculty. It also means that the US may not be totally out of the woods with BA.2 since Spring Break and the Easter and Passover holidays will mean more journey and extra mixing of people from completely different components of the nation. People who find themselves more socially linked to family, mates, or the neighborhood are happier, physically healthier, and stay longer than people who find themselves much less related.
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And although he is not ready to sound the all-clear, he thinks issues may be higher than individuals are expecting this time around. If BA.2 does go quietly, it could also be as a result of the US did such a poor job of stopping transmission of Omicron and the variants that got here before it, that we've got failed upward, bungling our strategy to a excessive stage of immune safety. One of the research's findings which will not be able to be explained by wages is the excessive level of physicians who left their jobs. Residents in Sevier County, Tennessee, have been positioned below necessary evacuation as a consequence of a brush fireplace fueled by excessive winds in Wears Valley/Shagbark areas, the county Emergency Management Agency stated. He was surprised to see San Francisco County just lately take the highest spot for its seven-day common of latest instances on the California Department of Public Health's Covid Dashboard. Prompted by an abundance of warning, the Milwaukee County Zoo's Aviary and Humboldt Penguin exhibit has briefly closed, according to its web site.
Visitors could see flamingos. May not have left as much immunity in its wake. However the combined impact of heat ocean air and Anamaya’s yoga and adventure retreat left me absolutely refreshed in mind, body and spirit. Overall, in keeping with the researchers’ data, 12/sixty nine (17.4%) of the kids who were handled left the study, whereas 28/35 (80%) of the children who weren’t treated left it3. This is a straightforward way to make your plate more plant-primarily based whereas boosting fiber. This immunity got here at a high worth: The US remains a world leader in Covid-19 deaths with more than 980,000, according to information from Johns Hopkins University. It could also be brief, because the world waits to see what different surprises the virus has in retailer. With more virus being transmitted, Larson says, officials may see cases go up, but he is undecided. And huge deployment of troops and equipment have been noticed by Maxar, which assesses that more than 550 troop tents and a whole bunch of automobiles have arrived north of the Crimean capital, Simferopol. The zoo, which has the most important colony of African penguins in North America, has not detected instances -- but the case depend is close enough to move its birds indoors, in accordance with its senior communications director, Mike Evitts.
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Zoos across North America are shifting their birds indoors and away from folks and wildlife as they fight to guard them from the highly contagious and doubtlessly deadly avian influenza. In an effort to forestall infections, zoos have taken numerous steps to keep their birds protected. As companies and city expansion threatens to downsize parks in the neighborhood, increasingly individuals are banding together in a political effort to save lots of their parks. That is vital in attracting businesses. Even in wastewater, although, there's not too much to see. Pekosz says many European countries dropped some precautions when there was already lot of virus circulating. That's totally different from what's occurring within the UK, some European countries and elements of Canada, where the arrival of BA.2 coincided with a new wave of cases and hospitalizations. One idea is that we're no longer seeing optimistic circumstances present up in testing. Andy Pekosz, who studies viruses at Johns Hopkins University, says the brand new wave of instances in Europe could have extra to do with timing than any options of BA.2. Matus factors to Ontario, which is seeing a bigger viral load in its wastewater levels, indicating extra infections. Zooming in on areas of the nation which can be seeing more BA.2 transmission, like New York, wastewater has been only modestly affected.
But the will increase he's seeing are small ones. Why the US isn't seeing the identical increases in new infections with BA.2 as nations in Europe did continues to be an open question. Compared the identical isn't being seen for coronary heart assaults, no extraordinary measures are in place for it, so the present situation shouldn't be likely to grow to be worse by folks going back to their regular lives. They are particularly appreciated by burdened folks and athletes because they struggle stress and fatigue, chill out muscles, and facilitate restoration. Biden's monthly remarks on the jobs report final week highlighted an economic recovery that continues to be humming, regardless of headwinds coming from inflation at 40-12 months highs and the market effects of Russia's actions. Despite Beshear's motion, the state's General Assembly can override the veto next week with "a constitutional majority of 51 votes in the House of Representatives and 20 votes in the Senate," Crankshaw stated. Despite her efforts to de-escalate the scenario, she nonetheless obtained hurt. There are even some faculties which can be nonetheless closed because they're unwilling to tolerate the danger. There have been a lot of research that discover that fidgets or fidgeting help youngsters focus, whereas different analysis suggests that fidget toys can lead to poorer educational outcomes.
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Cyclic fatty acids can kind within one fatty acid; dimeric fatty acid can kind between two fatty acids or between triglycerides. Among the risky acid species are acetic acid (90%) and the rest comprised of propionic and hexanoic acid. The opposite points are other aromas that evoke different patterns of the eight moods. Within the video above, they demonstrate how to make use of a rubbery sphere referred to as a back pod to loosen these trigger factors. A sort of sugar substitute with a distinct classification from artificial sweeteners is called sugar alcohol. The sort A viruses naturally spread among wild aquatic birds worldwide and can infect home poultry along with chook and animal species, in response to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium has barred the general public from accessing birds together with ostriches, chickens and owls. Preventative measures embody putting up tarps or netting around the exhibits, closing walk-by means of aviaries to the general public and implementing strong quarantine protocols, in keeping with Rob Vernon, AZA's senior vice president for communications and strategy.
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8 Reasons Your Stretching Will not be What It Needs to be
13) Represent manufacturing of velocity gradient magnitude by vorticity stretching and strain self-amplification, respectively. Overall we find that the distribution of relative angles between the orientation of a slender rod and the Lagrangian stretching course has a energy-regulation tail for giant angles, reduce off by a plateau at small angles. 400Hz the one effect of the utilized stress on the dielectric measurement is said to the change of the pattern thickness induced by the large utilized stress. This behaviour is mainly dominated by the surface properties of the primary particles, e.g., shape, roughness, and thus nearly not influenced by the confining stress. RTE activity. We found that altering the solutions to a first-individual conjugation (e.g., “Go for a walk” turns into “I ought to go for a walk”) improved the performance of the TE model, so we utilized this as a pre-processing step to all of the options for this model solely. Psychological Features As variants of the DE model, we enhanced the input completely satisfied moments and sustainable ideas with extra psychological features: (1) idea, (2) agency, and (3) sociality.
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An example task is proven in Fig. 3. For each job, 5 workers had been asked to decide on the completely happy moments for which they thought-about the given sustainable suggestion could be appropriate111With limited info in regards to the person, we can't be certain that the suggestion is a good match, however we can leverage the common sense of annotators to infer that conditional on the pleased moment, it's more likely to be an excellent fit than previously expected.. POSTSUBSCRIPT as a fit parameter. POSTSUBSCRIPT over the aggregates. 0.898 and 0.950 for the company and sociality classification duties respectively222These fashions were not chosen as baselines as a result of they achieved accuracy the same as for random guessing (0.51-0.Fifty three AU-ROC).. NN model for NLI tasks. The ideas were chosen from a sequence of experimental MTurk tasks that asked staff to jot down a noun describing the event in a happy moment. The wooden of the tailpiece is 35 gm, which is comparatively hefty - chosen to reduce its motion.
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The 15 most regularly occurring responses were chosen as concepts. We hypothesized that evidence for a sustainable suggestion usually comes from overlapping concepts within the blissful moment and the sustainable suggestion. For example, the blissful moment “Coffee has made me incredibly happy” and the sustainable suggestion “meditate” was labeled as entailment, however they share no concept from our checklist in Table II, though they each replicate mindfulness. As shown in Fig. 4, it has a shared encoder for both inputs (i.e., a contented second and a sustainable suggestion.) Note that a mannequin for the HER job has to have the ability to take arbitrary two textual inputs to guage the entailment, and thus cannot define the lessons (i.e., multi-class classification) in advance. Other amenities could have a large variety of courses available, however cost extra for them. If BA.2 does go quietly, it may be as a result of the US did such a poor job of stopping transmission of Omicron and the variants that came before it, that now we have failed upward, bungling our option to a high level of immune protection. 마사지포털 of the outcomes have been either not repeatable or not sustainable, so we explore an automatic approach of extracting sustainable strategies.
We try to scale back this bottleneck by building a classifier that automatically filters candidate ideas from a corpus of glad moments akin to HappyDB. At first we attempted to crowdsource sustainable suggestions by giving MTurk workers the immediate “Imagine a buddy of yours is bored, or in a bad mood. But somewhere along the pandemic's long and tortuous street, which saw his native Switzerland imposing first one lockdown, then another, and eventually introducing vaccination certificates, Rimoldi decided he had had sufficient. Either the rotation or stretch area could also be eliminated to type a set of equations for two fields, considered one of which should be obtained by solving a quadratic equation, or both rotation and stretch may be eradicated to obtain an approximate description in terms of position derivatives alone. F could be generated in various methods. Another issue to weigh in is being aware that some crystals can fade or crack with different cleansing methods that may go for others.
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the liberal government self annihilaiting in an election year my beloved
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Vaccine rollout is a much-needed win for UK after bungling its pandemic response
Vaccine rollout is a much-needed win for UK after bungling its pandemic response
“She wanted my contacts. She knew that I knew everybody in the industry,” Bates, a lobbyist who heads the UK BioIndustry Association, told CNN. “Kate Bingham said to me, ‘we’ve never made a vaccine that’s worked against a human coronavirus. This is a long shot.'” Compelled by a sense of national duty in a time of crisis, Bates agreed to put his day job on hold. The position was unpaid. By that…
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