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Monday, July 27. 2020

How political is the virus?

Nobody wants to get sick or die, but how political is a disease?



Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 16:00 | Comments (6) | Trackback (1)

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Tucker Carlson, quoting polls as proof of a Biden advantage to have you join in the misery, and fear & doubt a Trump win. What does that tell you? It's a reminder that the Murdoch's run Fox - and the Murdoch's are funding Biden. Just like Bezos with the Washington Post.

Watch out for wolves in elephant's clothing; they start out telling you what you want to hear, and end up telling you what to think.

And don't forget to be a happy warrior, as you think for yourself and cast your vote.
#1 Aggie on 2020-07-27 18:48 (Reply)
Mark Steyn, in a column about the death of Mike Adams was similarly pessimistic.

He wrote:
QUOTE:
For what it's worth, I don't believe in the existence of this "silent majority", and a political party that has won the popular vote only once in the last thirty years (2004) ought to be chary about over-investing in it.

As for being a Happy Warrior Steyn wrote:
QUOTE:
He "seemed like" a happy warrior, but who knows? It's a miserable, unrelenting, stressful life, as the friends fall away and the colleagues, who were socially distant years before Covid, turn openly hostile. There are teachers who agree with Mike Adams at UNCW and other universities - not a lot, but some - and there are others who don't agree but retain a certain queasiness about the tightening bounds of acceptable opinion ...and they all keep their heads down. So the burden borne by a man with his head up, such as Adams, is a lonely one, and it can drag you down

. . . if you're doing the heavy lifting on an otherwise abandoned front of the culture war, what you mostly hear, as Mike Adams did, is the silent majority's silence - month in, month out.
https://www.steynonline.com/10482/mn

The point being that it is tough to be a happy warrior, and perhaps there are far fewer of us out there than we would like to think.

I guess we'll find out in November.
#1.1 feeblemind on 2020-07-28 01:32 (Reply)
You are one dumb mofo.
#1.1.1 LeClerk on 2020-07-28 11:42 (Reply)
What's interesting about the "virus" is that around forty percent of blacks are HIV positive. So there should be a huge public outcry. A national HIV test and contact tracing. But as you may have noticed: not one word about HIV in the media.

Look at the Google Search Result for "let's test everyone for HIV". https://www.google.com/search?q=%22let%27s+test+everyone+for+HIV%22&oq=%22let%27s+test+everyone+for+HIV%22&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.12077j1j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

There are almost no search results, because that term has been scrubbed from the net. It's not a conspiracy, it's a deal that the blacks have struck with Washington. You scratch our back, and we'll scratch yours. HIV medicine is worth a fortune to the Mob. So now look at this query: "how much does it cost to treat HIV?" Google won't give you a straight answer. https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&sxsrf=ALeKk00zXT4ZH_teW1lb0aFCvfO6FQZIhA%3A1595898028015&ei=rHgfX7svgcSwBe-BoLAN&q=%22how+much+does+it+cost+to+treat+HIV%3F%22&oq=%22how+much+does+it+cost+to+treat+HIV%3F%22&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB46BwgjEK4CECc6BwgjEOoCECc6BwguEOoCECc6CQgjEOoCECcQEzoECCMQJzoECC4QJzoECAAQQzoFCAAQkQI6CwguELEDEMcBEKMCOggIABCxAxCDAToFCAAQsQM6AggAOgIILjoICAAQDRAKEB46BAgAEA06BwgAEBQQhwJQhIsPWNOGEGDGiRBoA3AAeAOAAbcCiAHZO5IBCDUuNTguMS4xmAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdperABCsABAQ&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwi7tbq43-7qAhUBIqwKHe8ACNYQ4dUDCAw&uact=5

It costs U.S. taxpayers more than a hundred thousand dollars a year to treat each person who is HIV positive. So half of black America is depending on white America to pay for their life saving medicine. Funny, but black people aren't saying "Thanks." And Africans in Africa aren't saying "Thanks" either. U.S. taxpayers are providing free HIV medicine to about ten million Africans.

We are talking about untold billions in tax-money. Washington can't just give away medicine, and then bill working people for it. That's theft. Nobody has sympathy for a person who gets lung cancer from smoking. But for some reason, blacks are not to be held responsible for thier own actions. What nonsense. Washington D.C. is just a bunch of con-men and thieves. There's no reason for that city to even exist anymore.
#2 Ron Liebermann on 2020-07-27 21:16 (Reply)
In addition, it was really despicable to politicize the drug HCQ, a treatment that had been used around the world by millions for decades. Although, I'm still on the fence as to its efficacy, all decent people hoped it would work because of what it would mean for the poor people of the third world. It's cheap, already widely available, and didn't require any specialized storage, or specialized procedures, or specialized personnel to dispense it. In short, A God send for the people outside the wealthy, industrialized West.
#3 Exasperated on 2020-07-28 07:59 (Reply)
The disease isn't political, a lot of the response FROM ALL SIDES is.

And so is a lot of the rambling by idiot pundits ON BOTH SIDES proclaiming that responses to the disease (from suggested treatments to lockdowns to social distancing to masks, etc. etc.) either don't work or are the golden bullet that will instantly cause the disease to disappear.
#4 JTW on 2020-07-28 22:39 (Reply)

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