Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

BTW they’re playing Tucker Carlson’s comments about Putin, too.

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

Not as bad as Pelosi saying (when trying to answer what was in the legislation) we have to pass it before you can see what is in it.

Originally Posted by David Cotterell

Linking would put this article behind a paywall, so a screengrab will have to do.  Much food for thought.

Dave

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi Dave:   

I would much rather live in a world where people are free to disseminate disinformation than a world where the government censors disinformation.  This is true even if the disinformation is demonstrably false and damaging.  Government censorship of disinformation inexorably leads to government censorship of "disfavored" information and then unpopular opinions and the quashing of any dissent.  History is replete with examples, look to any dictatorship.

I hated this line of thought when the US press decided Trump required special treatment.  Freedom is too precious to trust the gatekeeping of information to any allegedly benign authority. 

What to do about disinformation?  (A) the authorities can publish better information, and (B) information consumers can weigh the competing viewpoints for themselves.  In the case of anti-vax disinformation, did this cost peoples lives?  In my opinion it did.  Free speech is worth the price.

Jim

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Fake Rod aka Link Boy,

    In 2 full years, there have been extraordinarily LOW deaths in Children from Covid.  Only 1000 so far.  That doesn't suprise me because back in October of 2021 according to the CDC only 700 had died at that time, in 21 months.

The hysterics of those like yourself is Unparalled.

More children die from Pneumonia every year.

Also to put the 1000 figure in perspective, children are about 1/4 of the entire population of this nation, with 73,000,000, so 1000 in 73 Million have died of Covid.

Since you're pathetic at understanding or performing simple math, I'll explain it to you.

Extrapolated against ALL deaths, children dying of Covid make up about 1 out of every 175 deaths, from Covid.

Now, to even put more of a damper on your unbelievable hysterics, of all 1000 children who died of Covid, 99% had serious Co Morbidities so the fact is that they may have died of another cause, but were labeled as deaths from Covid. '

So then to explain it even further to a person whose IQ is maybe double digits on his best day.

There are 330,000,000 people in this country and if ALL were children, we'd have 4000 total deaths from Covid in the last 2 years, nothing to get even remotely excited about.  

About a handful of the children who have died from Covid, died with no other symptoms.  

In essence children aren't dying from Covid.   But trying to explain that fact to a run of the mill meathead, is futile.  That person doesn't have the spark in his brain of a matchstick lighting.  

You're just proving that you haven't the ability to discern data whatsoever.  

Originally Posted by James Brown

Guys, I get it that Coyne is not openly calling for censorship.  My opinion is not changed however, I will try to explain.  Consider the bit below.  This sort of analysis (some ideas are simply not worth discussing or reporting) set me off because it has been used a lot recently in the US to justify censorship.  I can clip half a dozen of these, to emphasize my point.  I think he is calling for censorship, or the acceptance of censorship.  Heck, he even points out that Canada has no First Amendment?  Why did he do that?  Dave, you'll have to tell me, but is there any First-Amendment-like protection for free speech in Canada?

Originally Posted by James Brown

I generally agree that Covid was/is not a huge risk to children, but that 99% figure sure seems like it must be an exaggeration.