@geobear40 said in Johns Hopkins Researchers: Lockdowns Had Little Impact on COVID Deaths: @bi4smooth said in Johns Hopkins Researchers: Lockdowns Had Little Impact on COVID Deaths: When you tell a politician they were wrong, they fight back and try - with everything they can muster to prove that they were either NOT WRONG, or were misled... When you tell a scientist they were wrong, they ask to see the data, file it away, and move on... mistakes are how science makes progress! Mistakes are "part of the gameplan!" I guess that makes Fauci a politician not a scientist. It doesn't take a rocket scientist (note: I say that often because I was one, working in Range Safety at Cape Canaveral Air Force [now, Space Force] Station for 7 years in the 80's and 90's) to see how the lockdowns failed. What's with the this? Do you think it means you are an expert? Did NYC and SF need a lockdown? YES! Did Des Moines and Green Bay need a lockdown? NO! Where is your evidence to back this up or are you talking out your ass again? Science is mainly "educated guessing" - and when you realize your guess was wrong, you learn from it! Rarely, you may guess wildly and discover you were actually right (like the discovery of penicillin) - but usually, you guess 3000 times and finally find one that kinda-sorta works, so you try to find out WHY it works so you can guess better (and faster) next time! Science is not your strong suit. The core elements of scientific activity involve articulating hypotheses, laws, or models, designing experiments or empirical investigations that test these ideas, collecting data, and using data as evidence to evaluate and revise them. Why is that important? Because: a) it took a YEAR longer to get a vaccine "the old way"; b) now we can compare the results of old vaccine tech and new vaccine tech; and c) had we NOT had the new vaccine tech, the Delta variant likely would have added upwards of 2-million more deaths in the US alone We're approaching 900-thousand deaths in the US now, in early 2022 a) it would have taken tell 2033 according to the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/30/opinion/coronavirus-covid-vaccine.html b) in a decade or two we will have enough data to claim one is better than c)Where did you get that number? Of the 900-thousand how many are because of Covid and how many are with Covid? We will never know for sure. They are no longer reporting Covid deaths directly to the CDC on a daily basis. I guess now they don't want people to know the truth since it doesn't fit the Liberal narrative. Where to start... a) Fauci is a scientist / puppet whose strings are being pulled by politicians.He's admitted (that politicians sometimes tell him what he has to say) as much in public before. You can vilify him, I actually feel sorry for him. He didn't sign up for this. b) I reference my work experience as evidence that I am a bona fide scientist. (I don't just play one on GT.ru) As a scientist, I know (unlike some, hint hint) that there is far more that we DON'T yet know, than the pittance that we DO know... What's more, I also know that a LOT of what we "think we know" is wrong! Not wholly wrong, but at least a little-bit wrong. (That is: we don't know EVERYTHING about ANYTHING!). And lastly, I also know that the RATE at which we - as a species - are learning is accelerating... quickly! ... And some of the answers we're coming up with are scaring the pants off of some people (like you, @geobear40! Thus, your constant attacks on anything like science!) c) Google is your friend... or DuckDuckGo, or Bing, or any other search engine... when we did the lockdowns, NYC was FLUSH with infections! Their hospitals were being crushed. Des Moines had yet to see a single case. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to do simple research - but it does take someone willing to actually TRY! d) OK, smartypants... what's a synonym for hypothesis... I'll give you a hint: it's an educated guess ROFL True, a hypothesis embodies more than JUST an educated guess - there's a reason for the different wording - but since I knew my audience, I chose phrasing that they would understand. I should have to point this out, but YOU (@geobear40) were not the sole member of the intended audience. e) Let's see - the NYTimes hypothesized that it might take a decade to develop a vaccine in 2020, and I cited a case where it was actually DONE (well, at least as far as EUA goes)THIS MONTH... Did you pay attention to your own pathetic attempt to explain the scientific method? The hypothesis (in this case) was that it might take a decade (using the old methods)...the actuality was that it only took a YEAR... unless, of course, you want to claim that NOVAVAX is a hoax... you would... f) Not reporting COVID deaths daily is not the same thing as not reporting deaths at all! Hospitals report to the Government on EVERY death - pandemic or not! That's how they spot trends early on...

@bi4smooth said in California to turn San Quentin's death row into a 'positive, healing environment': @geobear40 again astounds me with his deeply thoughtful, logical, insightful responses... Does it make your feel warm and fuzzy to make such comments? They don't affect me at all. I find it interesting that you have to try to put people down in order to make yourself feel important.

@bi4smooth Do you really lack morals and how do you live with yourself and "I don't know how you keep from putting a gun in your mouth!"

@raphjd College education is a way to get into debt

@raphjd If it is true I would not be surprised Socialism at work

@raphjd said in Dan Bongino permanently banned by YouTube for challenging COVID-19 narrative: @bi4smooth Actually, they do. Ask MTG, Jim Jordan, and many others. Dems rewrote the rules to allow your supreme goddess and gin supplier to choose who Repubs can assign to which committees. No, you incompetent twit, they didn't re-write the rules... what they did was violate the "norms" of the House Rules. The House Rules have always said the Speaker has to approve of all House Committee appointments... what has always been the NORM is that the Speaker delegates and accepts the appointments of the minority party by the minority leader. Pelosi violated that norm for the Jan 6 investigation committee because McCarthy tried to appoint people to the committee who had already tipped their hands that they thought the Committee was a farce. Truth is, it's just another "shot" across the bow of the long-held American norm of a "loyal opposition"... the Parties - for over a century - generally worked together. When one was in the majority they still worked with the other side - and remained cordial and even somewhat deferential... after all, if there's one constant about American Politics, it is that the OTHER GUY will eventually be in charge again! Sadly, the end of this "loyal opposition" phase of our Political History started in 1995, when Newt Gingrich took over as Speaker and refused to work with or support any Democrat supported legislation - even amendments. And thus began the slow decline of civility between the sides in our Federal Government... It truly DOES make it SUCK ASS when you're in the minority... Good news: The Dems will be in the minority soon Bad news: The Dems will be in the majority again too... I don't know how it ends... but I don't think it ends well.

@bi4smooth You are such a dumb ass. Show me any law that Ted Cruz made, then directly and repeatedly violated. Did Cruz do the wise/right thing? NO. Of course, you are gonna defend the nephew of your gin supplier.

@raphjd said in ‘Transracial’ Influencer Wants Penis Reduction Surgery So They Look ‘100 Percent’ Korean: @bi4smooth So if a person hates American blacks, they aren't racist because they are indifferent about blacks in other places? It's racist in that he thinks Koreans have tiny dicks. You still don't get it... if he derided Koreans for having small dicks, THAT would be racist. If he discriminated AGAINST Koreans because "they have small dicks", THAT would be racist... But he wants to BE one of them! There isn't any of the negative connotation of "racism" in his actions - quite the opposite: he practically worships them! Again, I'm not defending him - just saying that your use of the term "racist" is misplaced.

@raphjd said in Neil Young - follow the money: Yeah, that's it! Neil Young has a LONG HISTORY of doing things "for the money" - no social activism in HIS past! Delusional much?

@raphjd It is not childish to speak the truth.@bi4smooth is not mature enough to respond in an adult manner. Regardless of his level of education he is still quite immature.

@bi4smooth Don't lie, we all know where you got your "news" on Kyle Rittenhouse, because you spouted the exact same thing they said. I guess you mean you conflated Kyle Rittenhouse murdered 3 black men with some murder in Chicago.

This would definitely be a bad thing. I say "would," because implementation of this change (by the United Conservative Party-led government) is on hold for a few months. It is possible (but in my opinion unlikely) that this $50/$150 scheme will be turned back. It's worth noting how this crept in: Last year a similar approach was applied to impaired-driving cases, following an approach taken in British Columbia. When this came up in Alberta, few people objected because nobody wanted to be seen as "soft" on impaired driving. Unfortunately, that opened the door to applying this barrier-to-due-process scheme to a wider set of offences. The argument given by those in favour of this measure is that the courts are overburdened with hearing traffic cases, and that this will stop frivolous challenges--especially by "rural repeat offenders." Having due process available to people can seem inconvenient and expensive, but losing it would be much more costly in a broader sense. For an example editorial in opposition to this plan (written before it was put on hold), see https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-ditching-traffic-court-denies-justice .

@eobox91103 There is a Lush at the West Edmonton Mall. It's not uncommon for MSM not to carry a story if they don't like the narrative. Sometimes they totally ignore a story and sometimes they wait until they get too large to ignore. That's not to say that the story is real or not, but MSM talking about it doesn't make it real either. Hunter's laptop was 100% Russian disinformation per 50 former and current Intel Service bosses. Adam Schiff has 100% absolute proof of Trump colluding with Russia, that he's never released.

@lololulu19 said in EU increases carbon taxes, but exempts yachts and private planes: Progressives want to mandate that people wear sensors in their underpants to detect how much they fart, so they can be carbon taxed! As absurd as that sounds.. they DO tax cattle farmers for how much their cows fart! A fart tax could bankrupt Whoopi Goldberg. It Larry King were still alive, he would be destroyed! (Larry King is known to have farted so much that they had to install fans under his desk so that his guests would not smell "Eau De Laurence" Parfum) If you want YOUR cars, boats, and aircraft exempted, all you have to do it pay-off the politicians, too! Seriously tho, why increase taxes on carbon emissions, then exempt the "worst offender"? (Why? because they've been paid off, that's why!) I do have to wonder tho - wouldn't it have been cheaper to have paid the taxes, than to have to have spent those millions on bribes to the politicians?

@raphjd Rules for thee but not for me

Hunter's laptop was "Russian disinformation" until after the election. Of course it was, We will not hear another thing about it until after the next election. No one in a political power position wants to scratch to deep at Hunter Biden. Once the public know about the Biden family influence peddling they will question all politicians and find that most if not all of them are gaming the system and making themselves and their family member richer. Pelosi and her husband who can pick winners in the market better then the professionals. Schumer's daughters connection to big tech. Just to name a few.

@bi4smooth If someone like you knows all this, then why didn't Fauci, Biden, the CDC boss, the MAYO Clinic, etc, etc, etc know this? Unless they knowingly lied? It's funny how your besties didn't know this but your arch-enemy in the US Senate, a lowly eye doctor, did.

OK, so a couple of things to unpack here: The election here (this was an election in a Central Florida town near Orlando - nor THAT far from my own home! - the next metropolitan area to my East..) was held in March, 2020 - not November, 2020... different election cycle, and one in which the local races were the ONLY races... no national ticket on the ballot, not even Primary voting! The results of the election were pretty iffy... first count showed candidate A won by one vote, then a re-canvass mysteriously found exactly 2 votes, BOTH for candidate B - reversing the election As with Trump's case, a court case was filed... UNLIKE Trump's cases (all but one of them), the court found evidence and probable cause, and it went to court... the results of which were that those 2 extra votes were indeed "bought and paid for" by candidate B (instead of watching some incendiary, partisan VIDEO, try reading the local Orlando coverage here Just a note here: in the one case where Trump's team won, they indeed got a court order... allowing the vote count observers to be an extra 1-3 feet closer than where they were permitted before. Both Dem and Republican observers were always given the same space, the suit just asked for that space to be CLOSER, and the court agreed.BIG WIN! And finally, I'm not aware of any legitimate claims that were was NO FRAUD in any recent election - including Nov 2020's... only that there was NOWHERE NEAR the level of fraud needed to change the outcome! In this case, they needed 1 vote... in Trump's case, he needed thousands! As a proud Republican, I agree with that sentiment: just not enough fraud (actually, less fraud than is "normal") to HOPE TO overturn the certified election totals! We (Republicans) won up and down the ticket! We just lost the Presidency because we had a historically unpopular and historically polarizing candidate... MAYBE, had we had a Republican Party with enough GUTS to allow actual PRIMARIES, we could (MAYBE - longshot, but MAYBE) have replaced Trump on the ticket and actually WON! (I know - I'm dreaming - he'd have won those primaries, had they been held... what? You can have your wild-ass dreams of the "big lie", and I can't have mine of a primary defeat?) NOTE: The only Presidential candidate to ever score lower - in their own party, much less the general population - in pre-election polling was Hillary Clinton! Thank the LORD ABOVE that we didn't have HER... but even so, was Trump really THAT MUCH BETTER? OK, yes, but not by as much as we'd hoped!

@geobear40 said in Pelosi Blames Trump Supporters for a Murder Committed by a Farrakhan Devotee: @raphjd They have to make a boogie man to run against. Their policies are indefensible. They are going to lose control of both houses of Congress, State houses and Governorships. Sigh... yes, we Republicans are likely to win back both houses of Congress (House and Senate) - but we shouldn't pat ourselves on the back too hard on that one: both are held by Dems with the SLIMMEST of margins, and the party with the Presidency nearly always loses SOME seats in both chambers in the off-year elections... just 1 Senate seat is enough, and just 6 house seats are enough, to flip control. The "history-making" event would be if we DIDN'T win control with the existing numbers! As for control of the State-level legislatures, that's because we (Republicans) have long-term focused our "grassroots" attention there (as well as county and city-levels)... THUS, we've out-maneuvered the Dems (and have been for many years) because we control the majority of States' legislatures - the ones that draw the congressional maps! Thus, even though we (Republicans) OFTEN lose in the "raw counts", we WIN in the counts that matter (like the Electoral College) - because, certainly at the Party level, we're just plain smarter than the Dems! November 3, 2020 they will step back and blame Trump, Racism and the voting rights laws that they still think people of color are too dumb to get an ID. Um - I think you mean Nov 8, 2022... you know, the one in the FUTURE? Just because the Republican PARTY is smarter than the DEM PARTY doesn't mean all of our members are...

@bi4smooth said in A neighbor’s noisy toilet is a human rights violation, Italy’s top court rules: But I also think the idea that the problem is the freaking TOILET is actually FUNNY.... ...and that it took nineteen years to resolve.