Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Brown

Rod, do you think those sort of "warning labels" can be applied in a politically unbiased way?   I do not.  Consider the warning labels you would apply versus the warning labels Richard would apply if you both worked at Facebook in the "warning label" department.   Human nature being what it is, I think it is impossible for warning labels or any other sort of advice to be doled out in an unbiased way.  Power corrupts and so on.  So I am opposed to warning labels being applied to political opinion.  I am fine with them on bottles of medicine of course!

Here's a good read on it that I think you will find interesting:
https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/7/15/22578924/surgeon-general-vivek-murthy-misinformation-covid-vaccine-social-media-public-health-threat

Originally Posted by James Brown

Yes, in general I understand. 

Still, I personally know quite well a person who had a parent die from terminal illnesses while having Covid.  The deceased was in at-home hospice with the very end-game stages of cancer.  The family was prepared for him to die in days or hours.  A couple of days before he did die, the soon to be deceased and his wife got infected with Covid by a home hospice worker (this was in the alpha timeframe).  The wife developed symptoms in due course, after her husband died though.  When he died, the wife was at his bedside, but the rest of the family had to stay away because mom and dad were infected.  That sucked.  

Covid is listed as one of the causes of death on his CO death certificate.  Cancer is listed too.  My contact (his daughter and executor) has the death certificate in her possession.  In this case, listing Covid is somewhat ridiculous.  I'm willing to bet however, that extreme circumstances like this are offset by lots of cases where un-diagnosed Covid did actually contribute to death.  Jim

" I'm willing to bet however, that extreme circumstances like this are offset by lots of cases where un-diagnosed Covid did actually contribute to death."
No doubt that's the case and it's the general consensus among scientists and doctors. Even diagnosed cases of covid causing deaths go unreported in state counts in places like Florida where out of state residents die from it but the state won't report it because they're "non-residents" and the states they officially reside in don't know, either. As one doctor put it, "they're nowhere"...

Originally Posted by James Brown

Wow, you worked yourself up a lot!  Did you notice that I've been agreeing with you in this thread?  Re-read my posts.  Especially #14.  I merely questioned the 99% figure, it seemed off.  That was it.  Thanks for the links though.    

Weil, you can recognize what a plus one event means whereas it's quite obvious Davis can't or won't...

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Dipshit, you still don't even have a clue do you?

Are you really that stupid when it comes to math?  

The Plus ONE event has nothing to do with anything aside from feeding your psychosis.  

Since 700 children died of pneumonia in 2020 and 500 died of Covid, what does that tell you, Captain ignorance?

Since more children die of influenza every single year, on average in much higher numbers than Covid, when does your hysterics there begin?

Should we mask up children forever because of various viruses out there?

Are you really that dense? 
Given your example of 700 children dying of pneumonia, even you should be able to realize that we have an additional event of covid resulting in 500 more deaths so instead having a total 700 deaths, we have a total of 1200 deaths. 
And, when the metrics drop and as more become vaccinated, we hopefully won't have to continue with simple mitigations measures like wearing a mask.

Prominent Anti-Vax Right Wingers Who Croaked Of COVID Since Oct 1st 2021

- Newsmax host Dick Farrel

- South Carolina Tea Party leader Presley Stutts

- Missouri GOP spokesman Steve Walsh

- Texas GOP councilman Scott Apley

- Right wing radio host Phil Valentine

- Right wing radio host Tod Tucker

- Christian radio host Jesse DeYoung

- Wife of Maine GOP state Rep. Chris Johansen

- Texas Minutemen Militia leader Caleb Wallace

- Right wing radio host Marc Bernier

- Georgia sheriff's deputy Joe Manning

- QAnon leader Robert David Steele

- Right wing radio host Bob Enyart

- Televangelist Pastor Loren Sandford

- Florida GOP official Gregg Prentice

- North Carolina Libertarian Party chair Tom Howe

- California Will Be Free leader Kristen Lowery

- Right wing flat earth televangelist Rob Skiba

- COVID "air purifier" company owner Brie Goolsby

- Kentucky GOP state Sen. Katie Howard

- Idaho GOP education official Pete Coulson

- Alaska Liberty Coalition founder William Topel

- Right wing televangelist Russ Dizdal

- Alaska GOP US Senate candidate Paul Kendall

- Georgia GOP former state Rep. Allen Wilkerson

- Washington GOP state Sen. Doug Ericksen

- Right wing televangelist Shelly Dizdal

- Free Canada founder Mark Parkar

- QAnon podcaster Cirsten Walden

- Ohio GOP official William Hartman

- Right wing televangelist Marcus Lamb

- Orange County (CA) GOP Chair Kelly Ernby

- QAnon podcaster Doug Kuzma

- Ohio GOP county commissioner Walt Smith

- Constitutional Rights Center founder Rocco Galati

- Texas Republican QAnon activist Kelly Canon

- Cinderella heavy metal guitarist Barry Benedetta

- 70s rocker and actor Meat Loaf


-Washington state trooper Robert LaMay


- Right wing televangelist Paul Oebel

- Georgia GOP House candidate Marc Saulnier

- Arkansas Libertarian House candidate Donn Baker
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/595581-white-house-aims-to-prepare-public-for-domestic-fallout-of-ukraine-crisis
Commentary from above source.

Ronny Jackson!? What a joke! The boozer and pill popper:  https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/02/politics/ronny-jackson-dod-inspector-general-report/index.html
I see Richie has latched onto the new Republican playbook of "blame it on Biden" instead of rallying around the cause, like the rest of the civilized world is doing:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/24/politics/elise-stefanik-biden-putin-russia-ukraine-invasion/index.html

Originally Posted by James Brown

That NR review article led to this one, which I am reading now.  Seems reasonable so far:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/02/how-republicans-should-respond-to-ketanji-brown-jackson/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=blog-post&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=more-in&utm_term=first

Here's how the Republicans are responding:
"Senate Republicans launched their attacks on Ketanji Brown Jackson, Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee, before the President officially announced his pick on Friday, portraying her as a pawn of the Left."
"Republicans criticized her educational background,"
"Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who voted for Jackson to serve as a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit eight months ago, appeared to unfavorably consider her nomination, saying in a tweet that "the radical Left has won President Biden over yet again."
Now that's a class act...
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/politics/republicans-biden-supreme-court-nominee/index.html

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Another laughable posting by you.

You have the gall to call out any Republican regarding class.

What did that pile of crap Rasheeda Talib say about Trump?

Her remark to a room full of leftist buffoons was "we're going to impeach the Mother F***er"

That's some real class there isn't it?

You're criticisms lately are a total joke, but then so are you.  

"What did that pile of crap Rasheeda Talib say about Trump?"
I got that beat: "Gosar is portrayed as a sword-wielding character who slashes at a figure with Ocasio-Cortez's face with his weapons from behind, causing the character to collapse to the ground. Then, with a sword in each hands, Gosar is depicted charging toward Mr. Biden and raising his arms in attack."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-gosar-censure-committees-house-aoc-video/

Originally Posted by James Brown

Did you read the whole article Rod?  This CNN piece is classic "Republicans Attack!" garbage.  There are no quotes from Rs saying anything derogatory about the nominee.  There is actually some very favorable stuff about her from Republicans.  CNN can not help themselves, they assume (hope and pray) the Rs will attack, so they go ahead and write the "Republicans Attack" article with no substance in it at all.

Jim

Try this one, Jim:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/02/25/republicans-have-already-started-attacking-bidens-supreme-court-nominee-ketanji-brown-jackson/?sh=292b9503928a

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

His tweets were just a tragedy weren't they?

Now we're saddled with the highest inflation we've known probably ever since they changed the way inflation is calculated, taking many necessities out of the equation.  

Many economists are saying that inflation is more on the order of 15% rather than the 7% claimed by Biden economists.

This whole administration is a disaster from top to bottom.  

Yawn...
https://www.denverpost.com/2022/02/10/us-inflation-explainer-2/