Ladapo signed the Great Barrington Declaration and suggests embracing "the reality of viral spread."
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Florida’s new surgeon general skeptical of vaccines, opposes masks
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This is the part where they instead double down and creates new tax to pay for it.
"Don't you think saving the unborn from evil abortion is worth a few pennies a day (every day, in perpetuity, subject to increase as needed, or because the legislature or the governor really really wanted to) ?"
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The Key & Peele "Aren't I a stinker" skit agrees.Fiction has to have a semblance of a plot, some type of plan, or at least interesting characters to be believed.
Humanity creates a reality that would be deemed farcical and slightly funny, if it weren't also true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B46km4V0CMY
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"Three Sheets Dutong was not born yesterday--or the day before that! "
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And it immediately got worse:
Florida Students Are No Longer Required To Quarantine After Being Exposed To COVID
So many teachers have died needlessly. This is a deliberate attempt to weaken the public school system and ultimately replace it with parochial, private or for profit schools. It is depraved and disgusting and in a just world, these people should rot in jail.
Florida Students Are No Longer Required To Quarantine After Being Exposed To COVID
So many teachers have died needlessly. This is a deliberate attempt to weaken the public school system and ultimately replace it with parochial, private or for profit schools. It is depraved and disgusting and in a just world, these people should rot in jail.
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Companies in Florida can require their employees get vaccinated. (See Disney, et al.)
Companies, per new (currently being contested in court) Florida laws, cannot require customers be vaccinated.
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"symptom based approach" :facepalm:
"The kid isn't firing that quite possibly loaded AK-47 right now, so let him wander around the school with it until random other students start getting shot."
"Sure, that's not a safe way to store gasoline -- but let's not take appropriate measures until we've had an actual fire or two -- and a 'No Smoking' policy would just be oppressive government over-reach."
"It's okay; 'STOP' signs, speed limits and cross-walks are really just 'expert' recommendations -- they aren't really necessary and they don't actually make people meaningfully safer... besides, no one's actually been injured in that particular intersection yet, and obeying traffic signals is just so inconvenient."
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Problem is, it's likely the unvaxxed (i.e. Republicon) ones who will catch Covid and die; killing the people (I use the term loosely) who will vote for you seems like a losing strategy.
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It's a good thing asymptomatic covid patients aren't contagious.
OH WAIT.
To the guy earlier in the thread who mocked the idea that the rest of us could be smarter than this doctor? We rest our case.
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You know, there was this article here about how people who are unvaccinated are five times more likely to catch covid. If that article is true (and the data says it is) then the vaccine must necessarily reduce transmission. After all, without the vaccine, four more people would have caught the disease and had the opportunity to spread it. You know, because vaccines *actually do prevent transmission quite frequently*.
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In lighter news, two people in New Mexico have died after ODing on horse paste.
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Huh? What bounties? They're suing the people involved for the $$, the state isn't providing them. That's the "evil genius" of the law - it's self-funding.
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Well, buying coffee at Starbucks for $6 does kinda feel like taking it in the ass...
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I'm ok with this.
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I'm still ok with this.
No one else was hurt. No ICU bed was taken up. No ambulance drivers were diverted. No health care workers were exposed to more viruses. They won't expose anyone in the future to their terrible decisions. They made a choice to commit suicide, and they did it in a way that didn't disturb anyone else.
And that horse paste is in enough supply that the horses will be fine too.
Y'all have at it.
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They didn't choose to commit suicide though. They effectively did, but that wasn't their choice. Their choice was to apply treatment to themselves. They were just misled into believing that the wrong thing would treat them. Not suicide, murder by misinformation.
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Taking bets on how long until enough of the old red voter base dies that florida somehow turns into a blue state
Right now Republicans are playing a proverbial game of chicken hoping they can win one more election before too many of their base are killed by their base-ginning-up bullshit.
It's why they are getting even more crazy and not less.
One more Election cycle like 2018 and 2020, and a lot of these States won't have enough right-wing base left to hold majorities EVEN WITH gerrymandering/suppression.
Never forget, for all the press they get, gerrymandering and voter suppression can't suppress blowout elections, etc.
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If they had made a choice to commit suicide, then I would have partly agreed with you, though to commit suicide that way seems terrible. Not that there are good ways, but I think that people should be helped if they are that ill, even if that illness is that they want to kill themselves.
But they did not make a choice to commit suicide. They were misinformed about the COVID-19 vaccines and they were misinformed about the use of ivermectin. And I don't think it's at all OK that such misinformation is allowed to be spread, because clearly it injures and even kills people.
I'm not advocating some baby-state, but I do think that we should try to curtail the "power at the cost of anything" philosophy that quite a few people already in power seem to have. Liberalism doesn't mean "I take my freedom at the cost of anything", it means "we all work towards more freedom for everyone". And that's not socialism, that's trying to be a nice person instead of a complete asshole. And I understand that complete assholes really don't care that they are complete assholes, as long as they have power, but all we can do is work hard and stay optimistic, because the alternative is more or less the Middle Ages.
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Yeah, I'm never going to be okay when the deluded members of a cult kill themselves. Especially when they've been convinced that they are not killing themselves, but are doing something that will make them stronger/healthier/whatever.
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They used ICU beds. They got to the hospital likely by ambulance. One of them caught COVID and exposed their treatment team. They almost certainly advocated among their peers the same insanity. And veterinary supply stores are running out of horse paste.
Apart from that, you got some of the facts right I guess? 2 out of 10.
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After glancing at the daily horror that is the Covid case and death counts this morning, I felt compelled to point out that only a day after this post, Florida's count has risen to 247 per 100k while Massachusetts is only up to 269 per 100k. (Forida's numbers come out rather sporadically)
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Florida state senator Manny Diaz wants to put ALL vaccine requirements on the hot seat.
Measles? Why should we force our children to be vaccinated against one of the most contagious diseases known to man?
Measles? Why should we force our children to be vaccinated against one of the most contagious diseases known to man?
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Just reread the article. Nowhere did it say that they were treated at a hospital for Ivermectin overdose. Nor did it say that they were treated at a hospital for Covid. If they were in a hospital for Covid, it would actually have been difficult for them to overdose on Ivermectin - general protocol is basically to not let anyone in with them.
As for feed stores running out of supply, yes - however, most horse people I know already have supplies, and the empty shelves are mostly because the feed stores aren't used to regularly restocking Ivermectin. So far, I haven't heard of any horses going without Ivermectin.
It's quite possible these people did go to a hospital, but that information wasn't in this article. If you have other information, I'm all ears. That would certainly change my position.
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No, Diaz you jerkwad. YOU made it complicated and then turned it into a dog whistle.
Please do the world a big favor and go french kiss a loaded 12 gauge.
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Look, I used to think that way as well. Then these people basically behaved not just like assholes, but like murdering assholes.
If members of a death cult who are trying very hard to kill me and my family suddenly are killing themselves... I find it very hard to care.
Are they also trying to snare more people with their disinformation? Sure. Does that worry me? Sure. Do I want that to stop, and do I do my best to combat that disinformation where I see it? Sure. Am I gonna lose sleep over these same people killing themselves?
Let me check again how I feel about that.
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Nope, still ok with it.
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"It's been treated almost like a religion, and that's just senseless...."
He's almost gets it, but on the wrong side of the issue.
He's almost gets it, but on the wrong side of the issue.
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Replace any of the above with driving drunk, or even reckless driving/ignoring traffic regulations, or replace it with basic restaurant kitchen hygiene and food storage, or any number of other behaviours in which personal choice uber alles, personal "judgment" uber alles, &/or compulsive opposition syndrome, and "to hell with what the expert community says I did my own research" leads to predictably disastrous results, and see how quickly this argument falls flat.
These people are making a choice, just as the guy who decides that drunk driving rules are an unreasonable imposition against personal responsibility (or just inconvenient), or the restaurateur who decides the food-keeping regulations are unrealistic (or just wasting money), are making choices for which they are responsible.
They may not be intending to commit suicide, and perhaps not intending to risk the lives and well-being of innocent bystanders through those choices, but they are choosing, and they are responsible for those choices and the likely, predictable, predicted consequences.
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"natural phenomena can't grow exponentially"
That's the latest hill the death cult wants to die on?
I mean.....
Don't you have some Ivermectin to take? Prophilactally? Via suppository? That way you can take the entire tube at once without gagging on the taste.
Just make sure to stay at home and don't go to the hospital. They're all medically incompetent there, clearly. Youtube has all the answers.
Is this working? I hear reverse psychology is all the rage now.
That's the latest hill the death cult wants to die on?
I mean.....
Don't you have some Ivermectin to take? Prophilactally? Via suppository? That way you can take the entire tube at once without gagging on the taste.
Just make sure to stay at home and don't go to the hospital. They're all medically incompetent there, clearly. Youtube has all the answers.
Is this working? I hear reverse psychology is all the rage now.
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"What we've observed happening several times in a row can't happen"
Yeah sure, let's trust some sheep and their scientifically-illiterate no-name youtuber over our own eyes.
Yeah sure, let's trust some sheep and their scientifically-illiterate no-name youtuber over our own eyes.
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How many points for them also being illiterate on climate modelling?
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Holy shit.
" believe that a natural phenomena can grow exponentially. "
How. Just how? Are you that dumb?
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