sweetcell
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Re: COVID-19 2020
January 18, 2022 at 07:33 AM UTC
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Off-season wrote:
Starsky wrote:
Is this saying what I think it’s saying?
https://twitter.com/fibke/status/1483036761110548482?s=20
We're winning?
that is indeed how 45 would interpret it.
kosmo
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Re: COVID-19 2020
January 18, 2022 at 05:00 PM UTC
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Good Christian father tweeter busy carrying on about Carhatt still having a mandatory vaccine mandate for their employees, despite SCOTUS ruling..
vansmack
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Re: COVID-19 2020
January 18, 2022 at 05:46 PM UTC
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Just FYI. The Biden web site for free Covid tests is live now. Just got a shipping confirmation
https://www.covidtests.gov/
Sidehatch
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Re: COVID-19 2020
January 18, 2022 at 05:47 PM UTC
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just orderd one from usps
4 free tests
https://special.usps.com/testkitsI'll say it again…this should have been done spring 2020…but I guess better late than never. Just wonder what the impact would have been on those 800k + that already died if we did this earlier
sweetcell
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Re: COVID-19 2020
January 18, 2022 at 08:04 PM UTC
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Side-H@tch wrote:
this should have been done spring 2020…but I guess better late than never.
we had neither the technology nor the production capacity in spring 2020 to do this. but yes, ideally, theoretically, it would have been best if we could have done this earlier on in the pandemic.
sweetcell
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Re: COVID-19 2020
January 18, 2022 at 08:09 PM UTC
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Starsky wrote:
Food for thought
https://unherd.com/thepost/israeli-vaccine-chief-we-have-made-mistakes/
"The Green Pass / vaccine passport concept is no longer relevant in the Omicron era and should be phased out (he expects it to be in short order in Israel)"
i dunno, if i was a business i would be nervous about opening my doors to the unvaxxed… what if i'm a club owner and someone sues me because they got covid at one of my shows? i wouldn't want that person to be unvaxxed, given the increased likelihood of negative outcomes.
i'm also generally in favor of making like difficult for the unvaxxed. you can take up space in concerts and restaurants, or you can take up space in our hospitals - not both.
Starsky
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Re: COVID-19 2020
January 18, 2022 at 08:10 PM UTC
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More people have died from covid under Biden than Trump. About 450,000 vs 430,000.
Abysmal failure. There is no getting around it.
Caveat: not getting into excess death count. If I did I would guess more have died under Trump
grateful
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Re: COVID-19 2020
January 18, 2022 at 08:14 PM UTC
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Starsky wrote:
More people have died from covid under Biden than Trump. About 450,000 vs 430,000.
Abysmal failure. There is no getting around it.
Caveat: not getting into excess death count. If I did I would guess more have died under Trump
That's a ridiculous measure, unless you're trying to make COVID a political issue.
Space Freely
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Re: COVID-19 2020
January 18, 2022 at 08:23 PM UTC
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sweetcell wrote:
Starsky wrote:
Food for thought
https://unherd.com/thepost/israeli-vaccine-chief-we-have-made-mistakes/
"The Green Pass / vaccine passport concept is no longer relevant in the Omicron era and should be phased out (he expects it to be in short order in Israel)"
i dunno, if i was a business i would be nervous about opening my doors to the unvaxxed… what if i'm a club owner and someone sues me because they got covid at one of my shows? i wouldn't want that person to be unvaxxed, given the increased likelihood of negative outcomes.
i'm also generally in favor of making like difficult for the unvaxxed. you can take up space in concerts and restaurants, or you can take up space in our hospitals - not both.
I think the point is with Omicron, being vaccinated no longer effectively prevents you from getting it. So now what's the point of a vaccine passport?
Starsky
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Re: COVID-19 2020
January 18, 2022 at 08:25 PM UTC
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No it’s not ridiculous. And Biden had the vaccines.
kosmo
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Re: COVID-19 2020
January 18, 2022 at 08:37 PM UTC
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How is this Biden’s fault? He wasn’t the one that politicized getting the vaccine. A year into his presidency and you have people protesting and getting arrested at Olive Gardens over vaccine requirements. People losing their shit over a clothing company’s mandate for its employees to be vaccinated or face testing. Look to Faux News, MTG, etc etc etc
grateful
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Re: COVID-19 2020
January 18, 2022 at 08:56 PM UTC
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Starsky wrote:
No it’s not ridiculous. And Biden had the vaccines.
You could have framed this as pre-2021 vs. post 2021. Pre-vaccine vs Post-vaccine. But you framed it Biden vs. Trump. It's not Biden's job to convince antivaxxers to get vaxxed. Horse to water etc.
And yes, what Kosmo said.
Starsky
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Re: COVID-19 2020
January 18, 2022 at 09:42 PM UTC
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It’s not about fault although one could debate that..
The buck stops with the president
It doesn’t matter if he is a democrat or Republican
The fact remains more people died - according to the official count- under President Biden than Trump.
Space Freely
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Re: COVID-19 2020
January 18, 2022 at 09:57 PM UTC
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Starsky wrote:
It’s not about fault although one could debate that..
The buck stops with the president
It doesn’t matter if he is a democrat or Republican
The fact remains more people died - according to the official count- under President Biden than Trump.
At this point it's 12 months of deaths for Biden vs. 10 months for Trump. And with deaths lagging cases, some of the deaths on Biden's watch were cases from Trump's watch.
gellman
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Re: COVID-19 2020
January 18, 2022 at 10:03 PM UTC
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Space wrote:
I think the point is with Omicron, being vaccinated no longer effectively prevents you from getting it. So now what's the point of a vaccine passport?
I mean the vaccine's primary job is to prevent you from going into the hospital. And I'm fine with vaccine passports, reward those who actually did the right thing and not the morons who avoided getting jabbed which resulted in all these mutations/variants/deaths.
Starsky
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Re: COVID-19 2020
January 18, 2022 at 10:11 PM UTC
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If we believe an overwhelming amount of the excess death count is due to covid then we are looking at over 1.1 million Americans have died from covid.
It’s really unbelievable.
It means about 1 in 300 Americans have died from covid.
To put that in perspective it’s like going to a sold out show at the 930 and 3 or 4 people are gone.
I find it staggering…
We are getting into numbers approaching the so called Spanish flu… the big difference is in that case it seemed to kill primarily young men while in this case it seems to affect most the elderly
The point I was making isn’t that Biden has been worse than Trump….just that the response under Biden has sucked ass…
kosmo
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Re: COVID-19 2020
January 18, 2022 at 10:25 PM UTC
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So Biden is responsible for the non actions taking place in the red states? He tried to mandate vaccines in large companies and for federal contractors but they got struck down by the courts.
Starsky
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Re: COVID-19 2020
January 18, 2022 at 10:38 PM UTC
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There have been plenty of people dying everywhere
But at the end of the day the president is the president.
Half a million people dying in his presidency from covid can’t be ignored. And what happens when god forbid it’s many more… At what point does he bear any responsibility?
They were supposed to get this under control and it hasn’t happened.
grateful
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Re: COVID-19 2020
January 18, 2022 at 10:40 PM UTC
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The majority of the people testing positive, in the hospital or dead are Republicans taking Trumps advice. The majority of vaxxed and boosted are Democrats. Explain to me how thats Biden's fault.