I know that when I think of people who I look to for my cues on American patriotism, I go right to geriatric German jew sociologists who came here to study at Berkeley and then advocate for carpet bombing civilians in Beirut.
So it's like every other dominant belief system ever? Is this type of fanatical one-upsmanship in the name of the locally dominant ideology how we got Kamikaze attacks and the Crusades?
Mutations are incredibly common for this type of virus. Different mutations are called variants, but they aren't considered strains unless they have distinct biological behavior (i.e. they make you sick in some distinctly different way). Most variants are neutral and have no real effect on the disease. There is no good evidence that this is anything more than a variant that is coming up frequently in one particular area because it just happens to be the variant spreading there. The suspicion that it's more virulent is based on flawed assumptions and bad understanding of how viruses operate, as well as unhelpfully panicky media coverage by underqualified science reporters.
2008 will look like an economic boom compared to what's coming the moment the government stops injecting hot air into the economy. It's a return to 1970s stagflation with rampant inflation and high unemployment. Joe Biden wants to raise taxes. All of these cities and a bunch of states are raising taxes, usually by insane amounts, like take Nashville which has been in the news lately, there's a 33% property tax hike coming in 2021. Property is being swallowed up and it won't be coming back to small businesses or homeowners at a cheap price.
The point is to make you panic. Everything they say is true--there are new mutations going around--but they neglect to tell you that it's a normal thing and there's been all sorts of new mutations for months.
What are your sources for the economic chaos? Common sense from unemployment?
It's not even religion in some cases; it's flat out hypocrisy. Look at what's happening in California -- a place where we see everyone from celebs to nobodies screeching on social media about the evils of privilege. Earlier in this thread, someone posted caps of people in that state willing to pay $25 k (if not more!) to move up in line to get their COVID vaccines. Them using their money and influence to get ahead of those who should be getting the vaccine -- some of whom may be in the same marginalized groups for whom they champion on social media -- is the textbook example of the privilege they're rallying against online despite wielding it offline.
Many people are in the same boat where they don't want any of the COVID vaccines currently in production but may have to take them anyways if it means the difference between bringing home a paycheck and being unemployed/unemployable. It's real bind for those people who have been raised to not allow themselves to be forced into something they don't want only to be told they need a COVID vaccine if they want to be able to either work or continue to fully participate in society as a whole
A true patriotic act would've been not resorting to voter fraud to "win" an election.Lockdowns don’t work. It remains a mystery as to why the world entered one
Surjit S Bhalla writes: Lockdowns were an unnatural experiment and, around the world, they have not worked in achieving their major health objective of less infections or slower pace of infections.
Biden Paves the Path for New Face Mask Protocols
Mask-wearing should be defined as belonging to the category of things that people do to keep the nation going, to keep its troops healthy, to keep the population strong and the economy as open as possible.nationalinterest.org
Biden Paves the Path for New Face Mask Protocols
I'll give him and the Democrats credit on one thing, even I didn't think they'd resort to trying to squeeze more money out of the people they helped put out of work. I naïvely thought a far worse tax season would kill their lockdown boner and make them consider reopening to make up for that shortfall, but they somehow found another way to sink lower in my eyes.
