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Future leaders of America from the esteemed Brown University:
That Americans did not fear COVID-19 enough is a governance failure. The state’s job is not only to craft economic and social policy, but also to coordinate collective action by signalling what proper pandemic behavior looks like. Widespread information about COVID-19 and lukewarm exhortations to “stay safe,” while helpful, did not suffice, even for COVID-cautious individuals. Fatigued by pandemic restrictions, a well-informed person may go to a crowded restaurant with their friends against their better judgement. Stronger restrictions on travel and indoor gathering, as well as PR campaigns offering a gloomier pandemic outlook, would have been more effective — not only by restricting risky behavior, but also by sending a message that the virus was to be taken seriously. While the government did not need to (and fortunately did not) turn into a police state to control COVID-19, states could have spurred citizens to make the right choices by instilling a little more fear of the virus. Of course, the economic fallout of pandemic restrictions are immense, but the solution to that is simple: mandate masks and social distancing and pay people to stay home.
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Commie Scum

Individual liberty is a thing of the past friends.
 
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El Gose said:
Future leaders of America from the esteemed Brown University:

Commie Scum

Individual liberty is a thing of the past friends.
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>economy's crashing because we keep forcing people to shut down everything
>the solution to that is simple: MOAR GIBS

Look, I get that the Fed has basically been operating off of a "money printer go brrr" strategy for far too long, but these dummies really don't get how unsustainable such a strategy would be. I'm no economist and good lord I couldn't even begin to describe how any of this shit "works," but it seems to me that the money printer only kind of works as long as there's actual economic activity going on. So long as the economy's growing, you can afford to add more cash to the system and fund more stuff. But when there's an economic contraction, printing bundles of cash seems like a good way to get to a Zimbabwe scenario. Putting aside the lunatic hubris that these people have that you really could stop an endemic virus just by paying everybody to stay home, all you're really doing is setting up the system to collapse, and badly.

But yeah, no, the real problem was not enough doomerism coming from the government, as if we didn't get enough of it from everyone else already. I thank my lucky stars I don't live in Britbongistan. Their propaganda is probably making Orwell spin in his grave.

It's a hard truth that the coof cult is going to have to learn: you can't manage every single risk away, and you're just gonna have to learn what acceptable risks are. This article in A&N is worth a look. Now that the Bad Orange Man is gone, the media is starting to realize (or perhaps finally deciding to report on) the unintended consequences of the pandemic panic.
 
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A third dose of coronavirus vaccine may be needed to prevent serious cases of new variants of the disease, Bill Gates said Tuesday. The billionaire philanthropist's comments come amid to the growing concern that current vaccines are less effective against the South African and Brazilian variants.

"The discussion now is do we just need to get a super high coverage of the current vaccine, or do we need a third dose that's just the same, or do we need a modified vaccine?" Gates told "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell.

"All five of the companies that have U.S. vaccines are looking at making that modification and adding that in so that people who've already had two shots might need to get a third shot," he said. "I think it's reasonably likely that we will have a tuned vaccine just to make absolutely sure that as these variants hit the U.S. that they're not escaping from vaccine protection."

Gates is funding studies in South Africa to determine whether the AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and Novavax vaccines were as effective against the more contagious variant.

"AstraZeneca in particular has a challenge with the variant. And the other two, Johnson & Johnson and Novavax, are slightly less effective, but still effective enough that we absolutely should get them out as fast as we can while we study this idea of tuning the vaccine," Gates said.

If the coronavirus is not eradicated, he said, additional shots may be necessary in the future. "Probably not yearly, but as long as it's out there, we want as many Americans as possible not to be spreading it to each other," he said.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration, told CBS News' "Face the Nation" on February 7 that he believed the vaccines currently being distributed in the U.S. would offer "reasonable protection" against the new variants, even if they are less effective against the new strains. Still, he said, it may also be necessary to administer booster shots in the fall.
 
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A third dose of coronavirus vaccine may be needed to prevent serious cases of new variants of the disease, Bill Gates said Tuesday. The billionaire philanthropist's comments come amid to the growing concern that current vaccines are less effective against the South African and Brazilian variants.

"The discussion now is do we just need to get a super high coverage of the current vaccine, or do we need a third dose that's just the same, or do we need a modified vaccine?" Gates told "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell.

"All five of the companies that have U.S. vaccines are looking at making that modification and adding that in so that people who've already had two shots might need to get a third shot," he said. "I think it's reasonably likely that we will have a tuned vaccine just to make absolutely sure that as these variants hit the U.S. that they're not escaping from vaccine protection."

Gates is funding studies in South Africa to determine whether the AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and Novavax vaccines were as effective against the more contagious variant.

"AstraZeneca in particular has a challenge with the variant. And the other two, Johnson & Johnson and Novavax, are slightly less effective, but still effective enough that we absolutely should get them out as fast as we can while we study this idea of tuning the vaccine," Gates said.

If the coronavirus is not eradicated, he said, additional shots may be necessary in the future. "Probably not yearly, but as long as it's out there, we want as many Americans as possible not to be spreading it to each other," he said.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration, told CBS News' "Face the Nation" on February 7 that he believed the vaccines currently being distributed in the U.S. would offer "reasonable protection" against the new variants, even if they are less effective against the new strains. Still, he said, it may also be necessary to administer booster shots in the fall.
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Stop power levelling Gatesy. Then again, all of what's he's saying, could be just him trying to stay relevant. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
 
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A third dose of coronavirus vaccine may be needed to prevent serious cases of new variants of the disease, Bill Gates said Tuesday. The billionaire philanthropist's comments come amid to the growing concern that current vaccines are less effective against the South African and Brazilian variants.

"The discussion now is do we just need to get a super high coverage of the current vaccine, or do we need a third dose that's just the same, or do we need a modified vaccine?" Gates told "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell.

"All five of the companies that have U.S. vaccines are looking at making that modification and adding that in so that people who've already had two shots might need to get a third shot," he said. "I think it's reasonably likely that we will have a tuned vaccine just to make absolutely sure that as these variants hit the U.S. that they're not escaping from vaccine protection."

Gates is funding studies in South Africa to determine whether the AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and Novavax vaccines were as effective against the more contagious variant.

"AstraZeneca in particular has a challenge with the variant. And the other two, Johnson & Johnson and Novavax, are slightly less effective, but still effective enough that we absolutely should get them out as fast as we can while we study this idea of tuning the vaccine," Gates said.

If the coronavirus is not eradicated, he said, additional shots may be necessary in the future. "Probably not yearly, but as long as it's out there, we want as many Americans as possible not to be spreading it to each other," he said.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration, told CBS News' "Face the Nation" on February 7 that he believed the vaccines currently being distributed in the U.S. would offer "reasonable protection" against the new variants, even if they are less effective against the new strains. Still, he said, it may also be necessary to administer booster shots in the fall.
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At this rate, it's going to be a shot right between our eyes to stop the coronavirus variants.
 
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Red Sparrow said:
Here's the funny thing, I have not heard or seen one person that says that they trust Gates. Even supposed allies (Correct me if I'm wrong.) If he wants people to trust him, he should keep quiet.
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Bill has a lot of negative associations in the general public's mind. There are those that still see him as the ruthless executive that ended up in hot water with the feds due to his company's monopolistic actions (ah, the days when the government would actually litigate against Big Tech). He's one of the driving forces behind Common Core, and we all know how much garbage that turned out to be. He's also made his Malthusian motives known on multiple occasions, lecturing the rest of us about how we need to eat the bugs and live in pods while he refuses to give up his burgers and mansions. In those regards, a fair amount of people see him as a control freak who wants to force us into his vision of the future whether we want it or not, never once stopping to consider that he might be wrong.

While he might have some genuine interest in making the world a better place, I can't help but feel that it's mostly ego at play. Bill wants to reinvent himself as a benevolent philanthropist and get away from the image of the greedy Microsoft CEO that only cared about making ungodly amounts of money. Unfortunately for us, instead of doing something simple like opening a museum or setting up a wildlife reserve, he uses his immense wealth to push the globohomo agenda and make everyone's lives miserable. To that I say, as politely as I can: fuck off, Bill. Enjoy your billions, go have a cheeseburger or twelve, and leave us the fuck alone.
 
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Hope DeSantis doesn't turn out to be a cuck.
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given how he's stuck to his guns about some stuff that's a little off the reservation traditionally for GOPs like his interest in wetlands preservation while still pissing off dems he seems to have a decent amout of spine for a republican who's been able to attain any degree of office
 
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The US isn't prepared for a new, more infectious variant to be dominant by March - even with vaccinations underway​

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At this point we just need to hope the new variants start evolving mask evasion and anti-lockdown transmission.
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At this rate, it's going to be a shot right between our eyes to stop the coronavirus variants.
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Bold of you to assume it wont eventually be up the butt.
They've already got 70% of the population wearing sub/slave masks, anal humiliation is almost inevitable.

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given how he's stuck to his guns about some stuff that's a little off the reservation traditionally for GOPs like his interest in wetlands preservation while still pissing off dems he seems to have a decent amout of spine for a republican who's been able to attain any degree of office
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Bill has a lot of negative associations in the general public's mind. There are those that still see him as the ruthless executive that ended up in hot water with the feds due to his company's monopolistic actions (ah, the days when the government would actually litigate against Big Tech). He's one of the driving forces behind Common Core, and we all know how much garbage that turned out to be. He's also made his Malthusian motives known on multiple occasions, lecturing the rest of us about how we need to eat the bugs and live in pods while he refuses to give up his burgers and mansions. In those regards, a fair amount of people see him as a control freak who wants to force us into his vision of the future whether we want it or not, never once stopping to consider that he might be wrong.
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Oh yeah, can't forget about Bill Gates's education programs too. He's big into the Teach for America program and has written plenty about his visions for schools and education. He's living proof that money talks, bullshit walks because a software guy and marketer is now somehow a leading expert on virology, epidemiology, education, and who knows what other sciences.
 
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s0mbra said:
So, what are you guys going to do on the one year anniversary of total isolation lockdown? I might go out and get some non store brand alcohol for the occasion~

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I'm gonna go for a walk, no mask, and just hang out in public offensively like a woman without her hijab.
 
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