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Interesting NY Times article that many here might concur with. The Morning: More Covid mysteries
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Yep. The numbers pretty much shoot down the fear-mongers. Texas reported a whopping 35 fatalities yesterday. Somehow we ALSO saw an increase of more than a hundred ventilators that are available Statewide (a total that is now north of 7200).I was glad to hear that Abbott says Texas is going to emphasize personal responsibility and not government mandates. That’s the way it should have been all along. If people want it and perceive a benefit, they’ll get it.
I wonder how many babies were murdered yesterday in Texas, or how many people died on the roads.Yep. The numbers pretty much shoot down the fear-mongers. Texas reported a whopping 35 fatalities yesterday. Somehow we ALSO saw an increase of more than a hundred ventilators that are available Statewide (a total that is now north of 7200).
In Houston, there were more ICU beds than the previous day (I just started keeping up with this number) even as there was a claimed increase of 85 people hospitalized in the region with COVID (not BECAUSE of 'rona). Even with the big, bad Delta variant floating around, we STILL remain in low to mid double digits on fatalities...yet if we believe the likes of Don Lemon or any of the MSDNC reporting, bodies should be stacked like cord wood...
So much for the claims that this sends everyone to the hospital/ICU/ventilator/cemetery.
My wife isn't black. However, one of her colleagues is black. Her supervisor is black, and her former supervisor is black. He got fired. Before she worked for her current agency, she was a DoDEA special ed teacher in one of their overseas schools. She replaced a black man who was in the Overseas Federation of Teachers (union) and was fired.
My point here isn't about federal employees of any color and how easy it is for them to get canned. Most people aren't federal employees, but if you want to look at that angle, it's important to look at why it's hard to fire federal employees.
It's hard, because they usually can't be fired arbitrarily, and they have due process rights - both administratively and in the courts. They have to be fired for cause, and that cause has to be documented. For things like poor job performance, that's often very subjective. What's "poor?" How much poor performance is enough to fire? How have you treated other employees who performed similarly? You can see why that can become a big and very expensive mess, which is why government managers usually don't want to go to the trouble of firing people.
When it comes to a vaccine requirement, it's a lot more straightforward and objective and easier to document. Did the person get vaccinated? No? There's your cause. Much, much easier to fire in that situation.
Yeah, but if getting a Wuhan shot wasn't a condition of employment when they were hired, or as part of their labor contract, won't it be impossible to add that as a condition after employment?
Look, no Federal employee is going to get fired for not getting a Wuhan shot. Legally it would be taken to court by their union, politically the Democrat party isn't going to make their most loyal base, government workers, hit the street.
Interesting NY Times article that many here might concur with. The Morning: More Covid mysteries
Agree. That said a vaccine and a mask are the bare minimum. Especially the mask.It is interesting, but they are oblivious. Leonhart acknowledges that "we" (whoever that is) don't know much, which is true. (After all, if they did know much, Texas and Florida would be havens of death, and Swedes would basically be an extinct ethnicity.) However, a logical person who figures that out should be able to make the connection that if you don't know much, you shouldn't act as though you do. You shouldn't speak with certainty, and you shouldn't ridicule those who don't accept what you say at face value especially when you've been caught in lies.
As someone who has had both Pfizer shots I can say that being cautious of a drug that has not even been approved doesn't make someone an anti-vaxxer.
Agree. That said a vaccine and a mask are the bare minimum. Especially the mask.
Every time you get something wrong and certainly every time you've been caught in a lie or violating what you claim to be your principles (like breaking your own quarantine to go bang somebody else's wife), it's going to damage your credibility.
Curious...who has been caught in a lie multiple times regarding Covid?
The lies are not lies. You’re buying into the narrative. You wear a coat when it’s cold and there are plenty of coats. When coats are limited and the weather is mild maybe you dont. Outer ware changes as the weather and supply of clothing changes.Fauci has been caught saying some pretty questionable things and telling the "noble lie." So have several governors. And of course, censoring talk about the virus's origin for a year (which frankly never made sense) and seeing several physicians and the entire media giving BLM protestors their blessing while telling others to stay home fosters massive and long term distrust of the system. You can't expect people to just shrug that sort of thing off.
It doesn't mean nothing these guys say is true, but it's asking too much to say they should be reflexively believed or that it's unreasonable to second guess them or their motives.
The lies are not lies. You’re buying into the narrative. You wear a coat when it’s cold and there are plenty of coats. When coats are limited and the weather is mild maybe you dont. Outer ware changes as the weather and supply of clothing changes.
I thought you were saying I was banging someone’s wife.![]()
Fauci has been caught saying some pretty questionable things and telling the "noble lie." So have several governors. And of course, censoring talk about the virus's origin for a year (which frankly never made sense) and seeing several physicians and the entire media giving BLM protestors their blessing while telling others to stay home fosters massive and long term distrust of the system. You can't expect people to just shrug that sort of thing off.
It doesn't mean nothing these guys say is true, but it's asking too much to say they should be reflexively believed or that it's unreasonable to second guess them or their motives.
I made an enemy at work after a snarky email on 2/9/20 about new mask rules that would see PPE last only 9 days.The only "noble lie" i can recall is masks aren't necessary whereas a month later he admitted it was to protect the supply of N95 masks for healthcare workers. Are there others?
Need to be careful of attributing ill intentions as new information was input into decisions.
And it was thought initially that it was not airborne. People were wiping down groceries. And the German scientist who discovered that asymptomatic carriers spread it as well. Things like that changed the guidance as we went.I made an enemy at work after a snarky email on 2/9/20 about new mask rules that would see PPE last only 9 days.
The lies are not lies. You’re buying into the narrative.
You think there has only been one “noble” lie and that’s it? The fact they lied once is enough to tell me they will lie again. And they have. Fauci should be prosecuted for his lies and the fact he was sending money to Wuhan for these dangerous studies. My hope is that after the republicans take over after the midterms, Fauci and others go to jail.The only "noble lie" i can recall is masks aren't necessary whereas a month later he admitted it was to protect the supply of N95 masks for healthcare workers. Are there others?
Need to be careful of attributing ill intentions as new information was input into decisions.
The only "noble lie" i can recall is masks aren't necessary whereas a month later he admitted it was to protect the supply of N95 masks for healthcare workers. Are there others?
Need to be careful of attributing ill intentions as new information was input into decisions.
The lies are not lies. You’re buying into the narrative. You wear a coat when it’s cold and there are plenty of coats. When coats are limited and the weather is mild maybe you dont. Outer ware changes as the weather and supply of clothing changes.
I thought you were saying I was banging someone’s wife.![]()
Well done good sir. LolWhat narrative?
Lol. No, not you. I'm talking about British epidemiologist Neil Ferguson. The chick he was banging was Dutch and decent looking. She was a skank, but even she had her standards. She wouldn't be getting with a dude from Oklahoma.
Well done good sir. Lol
I’m talking about the “lies”. He said masks were not necessary by regular people when people were buying masks off the shelves like it was toilet paper. Painting masks, Batman masks, you name it. And that led to a large PPE shortage/crisis. It was also not believed to be airborne at that time. That’s the thing about a novel virus. We learn as we go.
All of his emails were released. I’m still waiting for the bombshell.
Further, most of the guidance is aimed at the unwashed masses. It may not be the best advice for your personally. I thought individual medicine was the future. Apparently not."Bombshell" is subjective. Read the Slate article. He lied. You can justify the lie, but it's still a lie, and even a "nice lie" damages one's credibility.
And again, my point here isn't to say nothing he says is believable. My point is that you can't lie and expect to be believed reflexively. I also understand that facts change that warrant a change in one's position. That's fine, but again, changing your position based on new evidence is going to make people wonder if the position you're currently taking is also going to change. That's a rational response. What's really needed here is a lot more humility and respect for skepticism. The "experts" on this simply haven't earned the right to be believed automatically.