Tom Cowan

As Old Man said.
 
Yes, there's been thousands of deaths that *may have been* vaccination-related.  But this is lying by selective truth, which has been a standard Fox News tactic.  "The vaccine doesn't keep you from getting it...so what's the point???"

I thought of that earlier, so came up with a thought experiment.
 
Take a population that lives in the same relatively small area...say, 20,000 people.  10,000 are vaccinated.  10,000 are not.  The groups intermingle and go about their daily lives.
 
3 months later, a review of the numbers shows something like this:
vaccinated group:  50 test positive, 1 requires hospitalization but doesn't need a ventilator, and recovers.
unvaccinated group:  500 test positive.  40 require hospitalization;  20 need to go into the ICU.  6 die.
Economic impact:  
vaccinated:  call it 300 workdays lost.  10 days' worth of hospital expenses.
unvaccinated:  about 5,000 workdays lost from the asymptomatic group.  200 hospital days for the non-ICU;  maybe 400 for the ICU.  If you're in the ICU from Covid, your stay's tended to be quite long.
 
Fox et al focus on the 50 positive tests as an absolute number, showing there's no point...when a comparison makes the point blatantly obvious.
 
Note:  the numbers are made up, not from any source.  I think they are generally representative, tho...and the death rate is as listed.  The tough part would be figuring how many cases in 3 months.  I used 5%.

Anti-vaxxers bribe doctors for “vaccination” with water, end up with the real vaccine

Two takeaways: Doctors as just as corruptible as anyone else. And anti-vaxxers are as dumb as we think they are.

Well, I've thought Democrats were -- again -- snatching defeat from the jaws of victory ever since House Democrats decided to make passing the "hard" infrastructure bill contingent on passing the social spending bill. As pundit David Brooks said, the infrastructure bill was a trillion-dollar aid package and love letter to the working class -- a class that Dems spent decades alienating as the party became more college-educated, accredited, and wokishly obsessed with cultural reform instead of jobs.
 
I am told the strategy was that Joe Manchin would hold his nose and vote for the full Progressive agenda, rather than see the bill he helped negotiate and pass go nowhere?
 
But that seems like a flipping stupid strategy. When your majority is so razor-thin, the chief concern should be increasing it in the next election. I think the way to do that is to keep showing voters that Dems can deliver what the voters want. So, pass something practical -- anything -- every few months. Start off with the infrastructure bill. If Republicans want to take credit, let them. Biden's the President, he's the one people will associate with the bill and the results. Move on to other programs with overwhelming public support, such as the child tax credit program that was putting money in millions of parents' pockets through the pandemic. Even a mojority of Republicans liked that. Pay for it with an inheritance tax on trust funds. If Republicans shoot it down, the attack ads write themselves -- "Republicans care more about the children of their billionaire donors than about YOUR children!" Funding for Historically Black Colleges & Universities is another potential easy pass: Even Trump backed that, in an attempt to curry favor with Black voters.
 
First try to pass such bills by standard means. If a few Republicans want to be seen assisting practical legislation, that's good for everyone. If they stand firm and block it, everyone knows who's responsible, and Dems can move on to budget reconciliation or other tactics.
 
It's also worth remembering that while solid majorities support many individual progressive policies, that doesn't mean a solid majority supports the full progressive package. So the strategy for progressives should be to seek small and narrow victories instead of some big, utopian vision. Yes, that means abandoning climate change legislation... for now. Manchin makes it impossib le... for now. But if voters see Dems passing bills that improve their lives, they might be more inclined to vote Democrat in 2022 -- perhaps enough to increase their Senate seats, so they no longer need to placate Manchin.
 
Dean Shomshak

The problem isn't Jesus; it's his fan club. 

"Let the gourd times roll"

I'm not a big fan of this quote. It's the kind of thing a Covidiot would say.
 
I've run into too many stubborn people who will die in a ditch over a wrong opinion.
 
On the other hand, if you actually are right...

Specifically, this:

 
Well done, Minister Gunner.

Especially if you don't understand it and are going to copy all the wrong things.

Colin Powell, military leader and first Black US secretary of state, dies after complications from Covid-19

I remember this stuff when I was still studying physics in college. It was a nightmare then, too.
 

Hollywood Rule #1: if it's successful, you must copy it.