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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #5300 on: June 10, 2021, 09:24:42 AM »
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/fortunes-spent-on-plastic-shields-with-no-proof-they-stop-covid/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=owned_echobox_f&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3d3wYmTj_FqO_SwWm193tu18Nq-7TyMwsED0bGw6ZDLD1N24ydMXry2PA#Echobox=1623246313

Our healthcare system spent several million dollars installing these barriers in our hospitals and clinics, based on the infection prevention recommendations at the time. I wonder if the epidemiology/infection prevention folks will recommend they be removed.  As a hard of hearing person, it certainly makes my life more difficult trying to hear someone on the other side of the barrier.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #5301 on: June 10, 2021, 09:53:40 AM »
As a hard of hearing person, it certainly makes my life more difficult trying to hear someone on the other side of the barrier.

As a not hard of hearing (though I have the old guy hearing going on) guy, I found it difficult to hear people behind masks and barriers. I'm sure I annoyed plenty of people with, "Speak up, sonny!"   :laugh:
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #5302 on: June 10, 2021, 10:24:45 PM »
As a not hard of hearing (though I have the old guy hearing going on) guy, I found it difficult to hear people behind masks and barriers. I'm sure I annoyed plenty of people with, "Speak up, sonny!"   :laugh:

I just get within that 6' zone and say in my scratchy old man's voice - "Eh?  What's that you say?"  :old: >:D
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #5304 on: June 15, 2021, 08:17:59 AM »
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US Intelligence. The Secretary of State.  Officials at NIH. Us Senators. A president - All crazy conspiracy theorists

Jon Stewart - *expletive deleted*it now we have to believe the lab leak.

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/06/15/lib-meltdown-imminent-jon-stewart-made-a-very-convincing-case-for-the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-last-night-on-stephen-colberts-show/
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #5305 on: June 15, 2021, 08:57:50 AM »
https://twitter.com/i/status/1403394195402858497
Over the weekend, there were posts with pictures/video of them shaking hands and standing close together after the showboating was over.
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« Reply #5307 on: June 15, 2021, 12:13:45 PM »
I don't usually agree with Jon Stewart, but he is a whole lot funnier than the rest of them.

Mainly because they're trying to BE him and failing.
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« Reply #5308 on: June 16, 2021, 10:26:15 AM »
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Dr. Fauci on COVID lab leak theory: “We’ve always said ‘keep an open mind and continue to look.’ So I think it’s a bit of a distortion to say that we deliberately suppressed that.”
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #5309 on: June 16, 2021, 10:51:04 AM »
People are catching colds again

Colds are coming back after masks come off
https://www.wave3.com/2021/06/15/colds-are-coming-back-after-masks-come-off/
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #5310 on: July 06, 2021, 02:47:40 PM »
Knock Knock

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Jen Psaki: We will be going door-to-door to Americans who have not been vaccinated

Nothing to see here, just Jen Psaki admitting the feds will be going door-to-door to Americans who have not been vaccinated (watch)
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2021/07/06/nothing-to-see-here-just-jen-psaki-admitting-the-feds-will-be-going-door-to-door-to-americans-who-have-not-been-vaccinated-watch/
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« Reply #5311 on: July 06, 2021, 02:52:10 PM »
That will be a fun gig.  I wonder who they will get to do that.

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« Reply #5312 on: July 06, 2021, 02:56:35 PM »
That will be a fun gig.  I wonder who they will get to do that.

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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #5313 on: July 06, 2021, 03:01:21 PM »
I wonder if the feds will bring tattoo guns or some other form of identification to force on those refusing to be vaccinated?
It doesn't make sense to go door-to-door if there isn't going to be some sort of enforcement action for those refusing to do the beer virus pokey.

Edited to add:  Hyperbole for illustrative purposes.  At the very least there will be a database compiled of those that refuse to vaccinate.
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« Reply #5314 on: July 06, 2021, 03:17:10 PM »
That will just insure that most of the people who have not gotten the corona vaccine never will. 


Kind of a harsh action to take for an illness with a 99+% (insert exact number here) survival rate.  Especially when the survival rate for the vaccine is less than 100%.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #5315 on: July 06, 2021, 03:19:59 PM »
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Start in Harlan County.  They respect the Revenuers.

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« Reply #5316 on: July 06, 2021, 03:22:03 PM »
I strongly doubt there will be any sort of door to door enforcement at this point or near future.

The door to door thing sounds more like a way to give money to people and groups they want to give money to. Also a way to do campaigning and PR on the taxpayer dime.

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« Reply #5317 on: July 06, 2021, 03:40:03 PM »
She referred to it as an "outreach" program. She didn't say they'd be going to unvaccinated people's doors. Sounds like plain-old canvassing to me.
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« Reply #5318 on: July 06, 2021, 03:55:25 PM »
I wonder if the feds will bring tattoo guns or some other form of identification to force on those refusing to be vaccinated?

So long as my name gets entered in the database as “Not Sure” I’m good with the tattoo.

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« Reply #5319 on: July 06, 2021, 03:57:32 PM »
What does HIPAA say about the govt pulling your med records to see if you're vaccinated or not?
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« Reply #5320 on: July 06, 2021, 04:09:01 PM »
What does HIPAA say about the govt pulling your med records to see if you're vaccinated or not?

It says they can: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance/disclosures-public-health-activities/index.html
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« Reply #5321 on: July 06, 2021, 04:11:45 PM »
She referred to it as an "outreach" program. She didn't say they'd be going to unvaccinated people's doors. Sounds like plain-old canvassing to me.

She says' "targeted community by community door to door outreach to get remaining Americans vaccinated". That sounds like, or at the very least can be interpreted, as knocking on doors to me.
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« Reply #5322 on: July 06, 2021, 04:35:22 PM »
I strongly doubt there will be any sort of door to door enforcement at this point or near future.

The door to door thing sounds more like a way to give money to people and groups they want to give money to. Also a way to do campaigning and PR on the taxpayer dime.

Yup. They're going to hire a bunch of temporary people at $30/hr from whatever special interest/racial/whatever groups they currently favor and those people will be going door to door with "educational materials". Probably not much different than when they do the census. I won't be surprised if half the people they hire just sit at home and collect the paycheck without ever going out knocking on doors.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #5323 on: July 06, 2021, 04:51:33 PM »
That will just insure that most of the people who have not gotten the corona vaccine never will. 


Kind of a harsh action to take for an illness with a 99+% (insert exact number here) survival rate.  Especially when the survival rate for the vaccine is less than 100%.

And still only about a tenth of the population have contracted it at all.  So a 90% chance to not get it at all compounded with a 99.997% survival rate for my medical categories.  There is no vaccine on the planet that can improve those numbers, the odds of a major negative reaction to the vaccine are substantially greater than the odds of infection and complication from infection.

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« Reply #5324 on: July 06, 2021, 04:53:04 PM »
So long as my name gets entered in the database as “Not Sure” I’m good with the tattoo.

I see you possess Presidential aspirations.  :cool: