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    Assuming we are not being lied to, is it unreasonable to ask what are we really dealing with in the Covid-19 virus?

    I always was under the impression that while most viruses mutate, the potency of those viruses reduce with such mutations.

    If my understanding is correct, , why this?:

    CDC reverses indoor mask policy, saying fully vaccinated people and kids should wear them indoors
    Reference: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/27/cdc-...hot-spots.html

    Just my impression, but this virus seems to have some rather unique characteristics that depart conventional, fact-based scientific understanding of, and remedies for, control of natural viruses.

    So, do you not think that it is time for the powers-that-be to directly and authoritatively answer this one simple question:

    Was Covid deliberately deployed by the Chinese as a bioweapon, or at the very least, was a recklessly released synthetic, manufactured virus?
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    Public safety, does anyone care

    Public safety is government’s #1 priority, right?

    The individuals who incited and carried out the appalling January 6th Capitol Riot should be prosecuted and penalized to the full extent of the law.

    The individuals who were involved with the Antifa, BLM, other participants riots where violence and property damage occurred should be prosecuted and penalized to the full extent of the law.

    The individuals involved with the record- breaking violence on our streets should be prosecuted and penalized to the full extent of the law.

    But that’s not what is happening. Defunding the police, cashless bail putting criminals back on the street ASAP, DA’s who refuse to prosecute, etc., is making America a lawless country where people are not only fearful of what is taking place now, but for the future when the left and the likes of AOC propose the following:

    AOC calls to upend police and prison systems

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp

    I never thought I would see the day when criminals had respect and rights equal to that of the police and the public. When violent criminals became the victims.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    Public safety, does anyone care

    Public safety is government’s #1 priority, right?

    The individuals who incited and carried out the appalling January 6th Capitol Riot should be prosecuted and penalized to the full extent of the law.

    The individuals who were involved with the Antifa, BLM, other participants riots where violence and property damage occurred should be prosecuted and penalized to the full extent of the law.

    The individuals involved with the record- breaking violence on our streets should be prosecuted and penalized to the full extent of the law.

    But that’s not what is happening. Defunding the police, cashless bail putting criminals back on the street ASAP, DA’s who refuse to prosecute, etc., is making America a lawless country where people are not only fearful of what is taking place now, but for the future when the left and the likes of AOC propose the following:

    AOC calls to upend police and prison systems

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp

    I never thought I would see the day when criminals had respect and rights equal to that of the police and the public. When violent criminals became the victims.
    Lee, I have to suggest a correction in your last two sentences, the criminals have "more" rights & respect than law enforcement & law abiding citizens. The criminals are ruling the land and redefining what "law & order" looks like. Anarchy...

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    The CDC communications on Covid, the vaccines, and the Delta variant appear to be very dynamic.

    In that regard, on July 27, two days ago, I asked and observed...

    Quote Originally Posted by mark blazejewski View Post
    Assuming we are not being lied to, is it unreasonable to ask what are we really dealing with in the Covid-19 virus?

    I always was under the impression that while most viruses mutate, the potency of those viruses reduce with such mutations.
    Tonight, CNN is reporting...

    CDC document warns Delta variant appears to spread as easily as chickenpox and cause more severe infection

    By Paul LeBlanc, Maggie Fox and Elizabeth Cohen, CNN

    Updated 11:06 PM ET, Thu July 29, 2021
    Reference: https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/29/polit...ons/index.html

    Again, I observe and once more ask...

    Quote Originally Posted by mark blazejewski View Post
    Just my impression, but this virus seems to have some rather unique characteristics that depart conventional, fact-based scientific understanding of, and remedies for, control of natural viruses.

    So, do you not think that it is time for the powers-that-be to directly and authoritatively answer this one simple question:

    Was Covid deliberately deployed by the Chinese as a bioweapon, or at the very least, was a recklessly released synthetic, manufactured virus?
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    Covid mixed messages – anger & pushback

    President Joe Biden snapped at a reporter who asked him about past assurances that those who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 no longer need to wear protective face masks. “No, I didn’t say that “Biden began, noting he was referring to people who were fully vaccinated outside of government-designated COVID-19 hot spots.

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now saying masks should be worn indoors for vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals in almost 70 percent of U.S. counties.

    Reportedly 26% of immunized individuals are getting infected with the virus variant but with less serious symptoms.

    Only a small percentage of immunized individuals transmit the virus.

    What to believe from these mixed messages is not only causing confusion but drawing deserved anger responses – especially from individuals following a year of religiously wearing a mask and following all CDC sanitizing protocols and the ‘science’.

    Individuals early on (especially seniors and the disabled) who spent hours / days on a phone / Internet attempting to make appointments for injections, traveling great distances, waiting in long lines, deserve to be angered when:

    • The vaccinated are being considered selfish / lacking compassion for the unvaccinated if resisting wearing masks indoors,
    • They were promised they would no longer have to be masked – anywhere. They were informed they were protected against the virus variant as well.
    • Hearing that to entice the unvaccinated to get the vaccine reward programs like “shot-and-a-beer’, $100 dollar incentives, and door-to-door programs have and are being offered.

    Supposedly the CDC is coming out with ‘science-based’ data that validates their new guidelines.

    Vaccinated and too old, too tired, too angry to repeat another year of misery from following CDC protocols and being punished in the end anyway!
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    Tired of all the political BS! I know unvaccinated individuals registered in all political parties. Stop trying to politicize the pandemic. Choices have consequences. The benefit outweighs the risk. Get vaccinated!.

    Mask and vaccine mandates sparking outrage across the US

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...edgdhp&pc=U531

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    Tired of all the political BS!

    Although Covid-19, whatever its cause is very real and dangerous, but unfortunately, the last sixteen months have been nothing but politics, just my opinion.

    Fauci was never shy at taking politically-impactful shots at Trump...

    Fauci says serving in the Trump administration was 'somewhat awkward'
    https://www.businessinsider.com/fauc...awkward-2021-1

    ...but, at a time when Americans are now confronted with more lockdowns and mandates, on this issue...

    Texas police learn COVID-positive illegal immigrants sent to local hotels, after Whataburger encounter
    Reference: https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-pol...ts-whataburger

    ...Dr. Fauci still refuses to speak out...


    Lindsey Graham rips Dr. Fauci for refusing to speak out about migrant crisis at the southern border, saying 'You need to go to there and witness the biggest COVID super spreader event in the nation'
    Reference: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rn-border.html

    BTW, who will ever forget this rather bizarre medical science?...


    Over 1,000 health professionals sign a letter saying, Don't shut down protests using coronavirus concerns as an excuse
    Reference: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/healt...rnd/index.html

    Further references:

    Despite coronavirus, these experts support the protests for health reasons
    https://www.latimes.com/california/s...health-experts


    https://time.com/5848212/doctors-supporting-protests/

    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...too-dangerous/
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    To mask or not to mask

    For those of us vaccinated, this report should relieve us of any confusion we may have on when or whether to mask when given a choice – NOT!

    Silly us for believing the government that getting immunized to protect us, others, and eradicating the virus was all that was needed. Our job was done. Now we are being put in the same culpable class as the unvaccinated.

    C.D.C. Internal Report Calls Delta Variant as Contagious as Chickenpox

    The Delta variant is much more contagious, more likely to break through protections afforded by the vaccines and may cause more severe disease than all other known versions of the virus, according to an internal presentation circulated within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, the director of the agency, acknowledged on Tuesday that vaccinated people with so-called breakthrough infections of the Delta variant carry just as much virus in the nose and throat as unvaccinated people, and may spread it just as readily, if less often.

    But the internal document lays out a broader and even grimmer view of the variant. The Delta variant is more transmissible than the viruses that cause MERS, SARS, Ebola, the common cold, the seasonal flu, and smallpox, and it is as contagious as chickenpox, according to the document.

    There were 71,000 new cases per day on average in the United States, as of Thursday. The new data suggest that vaccinated people are spreading the virus and contributing to those numbers — although probably to a far lesser degree than the unvaccinated.

    Dr. Walensky has called transmission by vaccinated people a rare event, but other scientists have suggested it may be more common than once thought.

    The agency’s new masking guidelines for vaccinated people, introduced on Tuesday, were based on the information presented in the document. The C.D.C. recommended that vaccinated people wear masks indoors in public settings in communities with high transmission of the virus.

    But the internal document hints that even that recommendation may not go far enough. “Given higher transmissibility and current vaccine coverage, universal masking is essential,” the document said.

    Infection with the Delta variant may be more likely to lead to severe illness. Still, the C.D.C.’s figures show that the vaccines are highly effective in preventing serious illness, hospitalization and death in vaccinated people, experts said.

    “Overall, Delta is the troubling variant we already knew it was,” said John Moore, a virologist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. “But the sky isn’t falling, and vaccination still protects strongly against the worse outcomes.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    Silly us for believing the government that getting immunized to protect us, others, and eradicating the virus was all that was needed. Our job was done. Now we are being put in the same culpable class as the unvaccinated.
    Interesting comment Lee, because in a sense, it illustrates the Left's playbook in motion!

    In the Communist Manifesto, Marx wrote:

    “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

    Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.”

    A horrible divisive trend is underway in America.

    The Left historically has thrived on its successful divisive narratives. It has pitted race against race, gender against gender (if there is any such thing as a true gender), and class against class. Indeed, Karl Marx would be proud.

    It is very troubling that in the last twelve years, the Leftist playbook has been accelerated. The 2008 guns and Bible "Clingers" became the 2016 unwashed "Deplorables," who are now broadly identified as the January 6 treasonous Revolutionaries; the greatest threat(s) to America since the Civil War.

    Now, the vaccinated against unvaccinated.

    Wake-up everyone!
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    Debt? What debt?

    Debt, who cares. They want that free stuff! But it will impact our children’s future. Who cares about the future, they need that stuff now.

    Some of us do care about uncontrolled spending and debt consequence! We are the ones who keep electing politicians who are more than happy to compromise our future economic strength and our kid’s futures, in order to keep them in power - and it doesn't seem to matter what party is in office!

    Another Voice / Economics
    Voters are to blame for nation’s exploding debt

    By Jeffrey Viksjo

    Spending what they don’t have works for politicians at the national level, who don’t need to balance a budget. Cutting taxes and/or increasing spending brings home the bacon and provides job security.

    History is instructive in this regard. Ronald Reagan increased the national debt by 186% while in office, percentage wise higher than debt increases during both World Wars. Barack Obama increased the debt by 75% (with the distinction of adding the most in absolute dollar terms). George W. increased the debt by 101%, and presidents George H.W. Bush, Ford, Carter, Clinton and Trump by more than 30%.

    President Biden is following suit, so far signing the Covid-19 relief bill, which includes hundreds of millions for municipalities like Buffalo, and proposing an additional trillion-dollar infrastructure package. The programs aren’t close to being paid for and will dramatically increase the national debt.

    According to the most recent Gallup poll, just 3% of respondents said the national debt was the most important problem facing the country. While pundits have warned, incorrectly, for decades about the imminent threat to prosperity posed by the national debt, I’ll argue that we may be nearing a tipping point.

    Relative to the size of the economy, the national debt is now more than four times the level it was when Reagan first took office. How is the government able to sustain this level of debt? One reason: Interest rates are at their lowest level in history. While the national debt is exploding higher, interest
    payments on that debt have stayed relatively constant. That can’t last forever.

    Interest rates have nowhere to go but up. Locally, and across the U.S., home buyers are willing to pay almost anything for a house because interest rates are so low, an exact mirror of what’s happening with the national debt. However, the government’s interest rates aren’t fixed for 30 years. In a realistic rate scenario, interest payments alone could equal 20% of total budget outlays by the end of the decade (up from 5% now), eliminating most discretionary spending. Social Security is at a turning point. Until recently, the program took in more than it paid out each year, but with baby boomers retiring, Social Security will now pay out more than it takes in. That means tapping the program will begin to tap into its surplus, and the government, which already spent the money, will need to take on more debt to pay back the IOUs.

    Voters bear the ultimate responsibility for this state of affairs. We are the ones who keep electing politicians who are more than happy to compromise our future economic strength and our kid’s futures, in order to keep them in power.

    Jeffrey Viksjo is a partner at Ogorek Wealth Management.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    History is instructive in this regard. Ronald Reagan increased the national debt by 186% while in office, percentage wise higher than debt increases during both World Wars.
    With time, study, and historic perspective comes reflection Lee.

    There was no greater Reagan fan than myself, but something happened to Reagan after his selection of Bush for VP in July, 1980, and March 30, 1981 certainly did not help his conservative psyche.

    Since those events, Reagan has been known to say of the national debt "It is big enough to take care of itself." His commitment to the Neo-Cons resulted in our disastrous involvement in Lebanon, and he apparently was snookered by the Left in regards to securing our borders and illegal immigration.

    Looks like the Gipper, for all of his talents and courage in confronting the USSR, left us with precedents which helped to tee-up America's current dark circumstances.

    Strictly for the reasons of confronting the Globalists, corporations, the big money boys, and the Deep State, and it truly pains me to write this, if there were to be a hypothetical John F. Kennedy-Ronald Reagan Presidential campaign, I am pretty sure that I would mark my ballot for Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe or no Marilyn Monroe.
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    COVID vaccination – just the facts please

    • President Biden declared: “If you’re no vaccinated your not as smart as I thought you were”.

    • The public is receiving ‘muddled’ messaging from the CDC

    • Covid deaths are way down.

    • It’s the Trumpers who are vax resistant

    • The vaccine works, the one’s getting sick are the unvaccinated, why mandate all should be wearing the mask

    • Less than 1% fatality rate.

    • Press is getting angrier because unmasked are putting their and their children’s lives in danger. Media would agree with Biden on anything anyway and declaring Republicans make up the great majority of those resisting getting the vaccination. Really, where’s the data to substantiate that claim.

    The following report covers much of the aforementioned and cites reasons for public confusion and vax resistance.

    Why the press is backing Biden mandate

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp

    Disregard all the political BS. GET VACCINATED! The benefit significantly out weighs the risk. And, I don't want to go back to wearing the *&%#@$* mask again!

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    Well, well, well...

    Wuhan lab report questions reasoning behind air safety and waste treatment systems renovations


    Months ahead of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Wuhan National Biosafety Lab requested bids for major renovations to air safety and waste treatment systems in research facilities that had been operational for less than 2 years, according to a new congressional report on the pandemic’s origins, obtained by Fox News.



    Reference: https://www.foxnews.com/us/wuhan-lab...ms-renovations


    Quote Originally Posted by mark blazejewski View Post

    Just my impression, but this virus seems to have some rather unique characteristics that depart conventional, fact-based scientific understanding of, and remedies for, control of natural viruses.

    So, do you not think that it is time for the powers-that-be to directly and authoritatively answer this one simple question:

    Was Covid deliberately deployed by the Chinese as a bioweapon, or at the very least, was a recklessly released synthetic, manufactured virus?
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    Senators finalize $1 trillion infrastructure plan

    Passing it is another matter. Calling it a $1 trillion infrastructure plan when only $550 billion in new spending comprises it is quite clever.

    Surprised at who may kill it?

    Senators finalize a $1 trillion version of Biden's infrastructure plan after weeks of wrangling

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp

    It includes $550 billion in new spending on infrastructure, as well as $450 billion in funds previously approved.

    It followed months of negotiations between Democrats and Republicans that saw an earlier $2 trillion plan put forward by President Joe Biden whittled down to secure wider support

    If the bill passes the Senate it would then need to be approved by the House of Representatives. Some progressives have said it now falls short of their spending demands and have threatened to block it.

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    Karma's A Bitch, eh?

    "The confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is a sad day for this country, and it will haunt us for as long as he is on the court.

    "Today 50 senators put partisan politics over the sanctity of the highest court in the nation. In November, the American people get to respond and make their voices heard.

    "In New York, we will not waver and will not back down. To Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and all survivors of sexual assault, we believe you and we will fight for you."

    Andrew Cuomo
    October 6, 2018


    Reference: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/sta...udge-kavanaugh

    As I see things, Cuomo will most probably resign very soon, perhaps by week's end.

    Kathy Hochul called the substance of the charges referred to in the NY AG's report "unlawful and repulsive," and indicated that she believes the accusers.

    (I am particularly struck by Hochul's comment that further statements on her part would be inappropriate. Those words almost are identical to those made by Vice President Ford on August 6, 1974-two days before the Nixon resignation.)

    Schumer, Gilibrand, and the entire New York House delegation also have called on Cuomo to resign.

    My best guess the final act will probably come down this way:

    President Biden will say that he finds the charges credible, troubling, and worthy of pursuit.

    The President will then say that at a time when Covid is re-emerging, New Yorkers simply can not afford a part time Governor and needs strong leadership to confront Covid.

    Biden will then close by saying that it is in the best interests of the people of New York that Governor Cuomo resign.

    Say good night sweet Prince Andrew.
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    From The Biden Presser Broadcast On Fox News:

    President Biden at 4:47 p.m. has just said that he believes that Governor Cuomo should resign.
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