Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

No, again we are NOT talking about all firearms here

You are confused (as usual) and so you were flustered and stupid just as I stated Roddie 3 cells.

Here was my post:

In the USA, More people were killed by knives last year, than were killed by all rifles, including AR-15s

I stated all rifles, not all Firearms 

I don't give a rats behind about your post. I was referencing a discussion about firearms in general in the thread. Then, you came up with your "gotcha" distinction  between guns and rifles compared to knives after the discussion already began.  Carrying your "logic" forward then, if more people died by knives than by rifles, then rifles really aren't so bad. Then, if that's true, if many more people were killed by guns than knives, then guns really are bad and ought to be the subject of gun control laws across the country such as a federal database and closures of gun loopholes in gun shows and cracking down on so-called "collectors" selling their guns in the capacity of an unlicensed seller.
PS: We'll have to wait and see what the stats show for this year on rifles versus knives.

Originally Posted by Brian McFarland

I'm still waiting to hear if his brother was vaccinated. 

Lol! Well, you know Richie's response: HIPAA!

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

I didn't read it.  I only read that part.  Usually I read your entire postings but I didn't on that one.  

And NO I DID NOT read your part that was placed in parentheses.

Yes, it looks like you were creating the straw man that leftists put forth, in order to knock it down.  

Good.  I'm glad you know that AR-15s are used for hunting AND self-defense.

As for the rest of your post there, I didn't read it.

Not really interested in your usual excuses for them.  

Perhaps Greg can correct me here but I thought he said in past threads on the subject that A15s really aren't effective hunting rifles because of the caliber and velocity of the bullet leaving the rifle. I seem to recall posting links to sites claiming it is an effective hunting rifle, and I don't doubt it, but my recollection is that Greg thinks otherwise. Maybe I'm mistaken but Greg can correct me if I am.
That said, I have a hard time visualizing using an AR15 as a self defense weapon against rattlesnakes which is mentioned in another post. I mean can you see the guy pointing at the thing firing away on it with a rifle?! It seems weird...

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

It shouldn't stop there.  -  Your header, whatever that means.

It means people who refuse to be vaccinated or masked should not take the place of those who are vaccinated and are scheduled for either required surgeries for their own health or for emergency services. In other words, they should be triaged with the vaccinated taking priority over the unvaccinated. The unvaccinated, this point, have had more than enough time to "talk to their doctor" about getting the vaccine. Unless there's some sort of overriding medical condition that supposedly supersedes being vaccinated, and/or those that are vaccinated but suffer a breakthrough infection, then an exception on a case by case basis can decided on its merits. Hospital staffs have been burned out throughout the country by the 25% of the US population that stubbornly refuses to be vaccinated for one inane reason or another, including bogus religious exemptions or by listening to Fox news. At the very least, the unvaccinated who do croak take the virus with them so it can't replicate and infect others or produce more variants so they can do the rest of us a favor and die at home which some continue to do...    

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

First Do No Harm - The Hippocratic Oath.  

Of course you're not a doctor so you never took it.

The Doctors at UC Health might want to reread it as well.  

That way they might remember what they got into the profession for in the first place.

Yeah, they'll give Larry Hagman a new liver so he can destroy it with his drinking as he did his own.  As a matter of fact, they'll put him at the top of the list, but this gal?  

Just give her a death sentence for political purposes and to cover their asses.  

Your opinion is noted, asinine but noted.  

I'm sure the doctors at UC Health are well aware of their oath and don't need to be chided about it by the likes of you who had to be goaded by your sister to be vaccinated.

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

I'm reminding them of their oath.

They forgot the very first part.  Do no harm.

Keeping her from getting the transplant is doing harm to her as it will kill her.

Politicizing life isn't a good thing.  

But for you, I get it, you're an automaton.

Not performing surgery on an unvaccinated patient in the case in question is practicing "do no harm" since the risks of contracting covid and dying from it in a patient like this one is the reason the surgery can't be performed--read and comprehend the article.

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

Jezus you are a despicable human being Rod..... Even the head of the CDC says the vaccine doesnt prevent transmitting the virus. Simple enough to give them a test to see if they have it. 

"Jezus", you're, well, we already know what you are but the vaccine significantly lowers the risk of transmission, as per the CDC and its head: "Infections with the Delta variant in vaccinated persons potentially have reduced transmissibility than infections in unvaccinated persons..." And, "Current evidence indicates that fully vaccinated people without immunocompromising conditions are able to engage in most activities with low risk of acquiring or transmitting SARS-CoV-2, with additional prevention measures (e.g. masking) where transmission is substantial or high."
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/fully-vaccinated-people.html

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

Funny.....the head of the CDC also said this.....

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/07/30/1022867219/cdc-study-provincetown-delta-vaccinated-breakthrough-mask-guidance

Direct from the statement she released....

Today, some of those data were published in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), demonstrating that Delta infection resulted in similarly high SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated people. High viral loads suggest an increased risk of transmission and raised concern that, unlike with other variants, vaccinated people infected with Delta can transmit the virus. This finding is concerning and was a pivotal discovery leading to CDC’s updated mask recommendation. The masking recommendation was updated to ensure the vaccinated public would not unknowingly transmit virus to others, including their unvaccinated or immunocompromised loved ones.

The link I cited was an updated one and was published in mid September and supersedes the older one(yours) of July. Many people, including you, don't understand and/or refuse to comprehend that the covid19 virus is a novel virus. Therefore, the data and information regarding it and how the vaccinations affect its dissemination are still evolving so now know more about it than before so the fact is the vaccine lowers its rate of transmission. There's no longer any mystery about it and there's nothing "funny" regarding it, either... 

Originally Posted by Steven Moore

I agree Greg what you posted about Rod!!!!

Really, you agree?! Here's recent videos of a husband who lost a wife who couldn't get care because of unvaccinated covid patients taking their places in hospitals:
https://www.facebook.com/NowThisNews/videos/husband-posts-message-to-anti-vaxxers-after-wife-loses-hospital-bed/274216254040972/
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2021/09/28/jason-arena-tiktok-wife-cancer-covid-19-hospital-eg-orig.cnn
Now that happened because of despicable acts of the anti vaccers and the misinformation they and along with those who suddenly find religion and come up with dubious claims for exemptions...

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Man, you truly are just a piece of work aren't you?

And no that happened because there are illegal aliens getting free health care and those who paid for it, can't get it because an illegal is taking their place either in a hospital bed or the emergency room.

No, it's because people in red states like Idaho aren't getting vaccinated.