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Ernest T. Vol said:
California is for nuts


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Yep. Impacting me at the moment since I'm in LA for work.

These people are ridiculous out here. But until the masses of people stand up to them, they'll continue doing this crap.
 
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Grand Vol said:
Yep. Impacting me at the moment since I'm in LA for work.

These people are ridiculous out here. But until the masses of people stand up to them, they'll continue doing this crap.
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Must be some kind of culture shock going out there from OK. You may have to wear 3 masks and get an anal swab before you escape from LA.
 
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Ernest T. Vol said:
Must be some kind of culture shock going out there from OK. You may have to wear 3 masks and get an anal swab before you escape from LA.
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Went down to the Santa Monica pier last night. Literally a handful of people wearing a mask.

Nobody out here gives a rat's ass about Covid at this point.
 
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Look at this BS

Los Angeles County reimposing indoor mask requirement

Los Angeles County has a population of $10 million…they have a 7 day average of 1,077 new cases and 60% of the residents have been vaccinated….. throw in the 1.25 million cases and the unreported cases….and the county is around 7.25 million….. add the unreported cases… whatever number there are….. it’s fear porn

Given that slightly under 4 million L.A. County residents are not vaccinated, the risk of increased spread of this variant within our county remains high," he said. "It’s just disappointing that overall vaccination numbers are lower than we need them to be."
 
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head of largest teachers union not so good with the maths.

She rage tweeted that DeSantis selling Fauci out of Florida merch would cause millions of Floridians to die (to date the pandemic has claimed just over 38,000 Floridians and half the population is vaccinated)

Guess she caught enough crap about her lack of quantitative expertise and now she says “You are all probably right… I shouldn’t have said millions,” Weingarten said in a tweet on Thursday, after the backlash.

Weingarten walks back claim DeSantis would cause Floridians to die

no mention from her about the millions of kids she kept out of school...
 
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Did Huxley, Orwell or even Rod Serling ever imagine a dystopian future where a virus was the main antagonist? I would love to know if anybody could have foreseen these over the top reactions.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
In hospital communication today, there is apparently no national trend of increased pediatric hospitalization or mortality from any of the variants. Additionally, the reporting that this new variant is more contagious is not necessarily accurate.
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Goodness Kiddie....What is one to believe with this or frankly ANYTHING anymore. Ordinary citizens without any intellect on topics and matters that affect us all and having to listen to this political BS all in the name of money and power.
 
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Orangeburst said:
Goodness Kiddie....What is one to believe with this or frankly ANYTHING anymore. Ordinary citizens without any intellect on topics and matters that affect us all and having to listen to this political BS all in the name of money and power.
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Trust me: I get it. This has been an incredibly difficult year for all of us. It's very frustrating that individual thought, common sense, real-world experience, reasonable analysis of data, and even decades of information are being discarded without any real evidence.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Trust me: I get it. This has been an incredibly difficult year for all of us. It's very frustrating that individual thought, common sense, real-world experience, reasonable analysis of data, and even decades of information are being discarded without any real evidence.
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Quote of the century!
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Did Huxley, Orwell or even Rod Serling ever imagine a dystopian future where a virus was the main antagonist? I would love to know if anybody could have foreseen these over the top reactions.
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Most horror involving virii is of the genre where the public is either unknowing or naive and it spreads rapidly despite warnings from scientists. If someone has gone the direction where the virus is a bust but is being overplayed for control reasons, I'm not aware of it. I'll check in with one of my science fiction editor friends and see if they have any idea.
 
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AshG said:
Most horror involving virii is of the genre where the public is either unknowing or naive and it spreads rapidly despite warnings from scientists. If someone has gone the direction where the virus is a bust but is being overplayed for control reasons, I'm not aware of it. I'll check in with one of my science fiction editor friends and see if they have any idea.
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At least for Orwell it wasnt a disease getting overplayed, but war. Same process at play. Only the party can save the people from the existential threat that never really appears in severity to the level of propaganda spewed against it. People are kept in fear and hate with very little actual information provided. It's used to empower the party and divide the people. Any one who brings truth that doesnt agree with the party line is cast as an enemy. Anyone who isnt as orthodox as the party wants, is the enemy. No threshold for acceptance or victory is ever established, and the rhetoric changes to suit those in power.

Its Orwellian, even if the exact subject isnt.
 
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LouderVol said:
I am surprised big pharma didnt push this route from the beginning.
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I found the "Valley of Death" comment telling in this aspect. It's not about saving lives, it's about long-term profit and returns on investment.

Is there a way that research on medicines for acute conditions can be shored up so the Valley of Death can be eliminated (or at least significantly mitigated? How would we go about this?
 
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walkenvol said:
Los Angeles is on the verge of reinstating their mask mandate due to the recent spike in new cases. We’re going to be social distanced and masked again if folks don’t pull their heads out of the sand and get vaccinated. If you haven’t yet gotten your shots, then you are the problem. Please look at the real data and quit listening to the conspiracy folks. This virus will continue to mutate if it continues to spread amongst unvaccinated people until there is a new variant that isn’t affected by the current vaccines, then the entire world will have to start over with a new vaccine. Are your worries that there could, maybe, just possibly be some problem that still hasn’t been discovered with the vaccines worth the risks you are bringing on everyone else?
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Most folks that I know who are skeptical of the vaccine are getting their "info" from social media, political opinion show hosts, and politicians instead of the medical community. The irony is that most of those messengers they listen to are vaccinated and are only spreading skepticism for political reasons. Let's not ignore the elephant in the room (no pun intended), but it tends to be folks who politically lean very far to the right. They don't seem to realize that Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Ron DeSantis, Rupert Murdoch, and many other figure heads on their side are vaccinated. Heck, Tucker Carlson spreads vaccine skepticism every night and absolutely refuses to answer if he's been vaccinated or not...which tells you he likely has been. It's disappointing to see so many trust just about everyone but a doctor these days. I think if you're that skeptical of modern medicine and something that is currently being proven to save lives, then you might as well stay home when you're sick and not let doctors treat you at all. Just my 2 cents from seeing someone on the brink of possibly losing their mother that's only 49 due to COVID. Her mom refused the vaccine, now she's in ICU fighting for her life on a ventilator with one collapsed lung, three holes in her lungs, a blood clot in her lung and clots in her legs, fluid on her brain from a stroke, poor kidney and liver function, and a weakened heart. But damn...the vaccine rarely causes easily treatable side effects, so don't take it. Absolutely crazy.
 
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