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10-23-2022, 10:03 PM
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The virus is indiscriminate, it goes where it goes, lands where it lands, and doesn't care who. A mucus membrane is a mucus membrane to it.
Whether it is blocked by a mask is a factor under human control. An immune response can be boosted, likewise, by measures under human control. So discriminating factors can be introduced, or not, into the equation. Their effect can be measured. The effects reported may be 'politicized data,' but it's plausible to me that they are real effects produced by human decisions, and it's the decisions that are politicized.
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10-23-2022, 10:28 PM
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Originally Posted by donquixote99
The virus is indiscriminate, it goes where it goes, lands where it lands, and doesn't care who. A mucus membrane is a mucus membrane to it.
Whether it is blocked by a mask is a factor under human control. An immune response can be boosted, likewise, by measures under human control. So discriminating factors can be introduced, or not, into the equation. Their effect can be measured. The effects reported may be 'politicized data,' but it's plausible to me that they are real effects produced by human decisions, and it's the decisions that are politicized.
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Exactly. From the article;
RED STATE, BLUE STATE
The map of states with the most preventable deaths shows a sharp political divide – as NPR has reported, people living in counties that voted for then-President Trump in the 2020 election were three times more likely to die from COVID-19 than people who lived in counties that voted for President Biden.
It makes it look like there is a geographical barrier to the virus, when this can't be true.
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10-24-2022, 12:39 AM
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Culture and politics are territorial. Geography matters. There is no physical barrier at the red/blue divides, at least not yet. But the borders make a difference, because people act differently on different sides of them. I first noticed it hitching across country in the 70s. You wouldn't think Montana and Wyoming would be so different but they are.
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10-24-2022, 09:13 AM
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Just pointing out that the 'data' is now politicized, when generally people claim Covid is indiscriminate in who it attacks.
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Broadly, Covid has been politicized from the git go.
There has been a mass of claims and counter claims.
Riding on this is some lack of trust because of the big money involved.
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10-24-2022, 09:58 AM
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Regardless, I don't see what the big deal is that a vaccine may or may not have have had some ancillary benefit beyond what it was intended to have and for which it was tested and licensed. This latest brouhaha started with a silly gotcha question on October 10 to a Pfizer executive from a Dutch conservative politician that got picked up by the wingnut echo chamber ....
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It's just another bit of misinformation spread by the folks who we relied upon to provide actionable facts.
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10-24-2022, 10:09 AM
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VP of Pfizer arrested after document dump
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It's just another bit of misinformation spread by the folks who we relied upon to provide actionable facts.
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The biggest purveyor of COVID misinformation, by far, was President Trump and the Trumpist infotainment complex. It resulted in ~300K unnecessary deaths. Your so-called misinformation campaign about transmission (to the extent it actually existed) caused, if anything, fewer deaths by providing yet another reason to be vaccinated.
Leave it to a MAGA wingnut like you to condemn something that (if it actually happened) saved lives while maintaining radio silence about the widespread misinformation campaign by Trump and right wing media to discredit the vaccine and thereby cause an additional ~300K deaths.
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10-24-2022, 05:23 PM
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Speaking of COVID Misinformation
CLEVELAND — Two right-wing operatives pleaded guilty on Monday in Cleveland to single felony counts of telecommunications fraud for having placed thousands of false robocalls in Ohio that told people they could be arrested or be forced to receive vaccinations based on information they submitted in votes by mail.
Jacob Wohl, 24, of Irvine, California, and Jack Burkman, 56, of Arlington, Virginia, could each receive a year in prison when they are sentenced Nov. 29 in common pleas court. They were indicted in October 2020 on numerous counts of telecommunications fraud and bribery.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...5a5_story.html
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10-24-2022, 05:48 PM
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CLEVELAND — Two right-wing operatives pleaded guilty on Monday in Cleveland to single felony counts of telecommunications fraud for having placed thousands of false robocalls in Ohio that told people they could be arrested or be forced to receive vaccinations based on information they submitted in votes by mail.
Jacob Wohl, 24, of Irvine, California, and Jack Burkman, 56, of Arlington, Virginia, could each receive a year in prison when they are sentenced Nov. 29 in common pleas court. They were indicted in October 2020 on numerous counts of telecommunications fraud and bribery.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...5a5_story.html
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I thought I recognized those names, scummy actors those two. Hopefully they'll get some time in the pokey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Wohl
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10-24-2022, 06:12 PM
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They're facing several more serious criminal charges in a couple more states, perhaps even federal charges. Scumbags.
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10-24-2022, 06:25 PM
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Wohl is an unscrupulous attention whore whose enabler daddy is a lawyer.
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