Senators getting vaccine.....

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  1. Bearack

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    I'll be the first to agree with you that Trump is missing a serious opportunity here.
     
  2. Bearack

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    I do not think there has been any athletes that have died from COVID and are the most likely to have minimal symptoms of COVID. I think they would be last to receive it, IMHO.
     
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    Is Rubio famous?
     
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    I called Pelosi a hypocrite too, foe going to the hair saloon.

    I also said that the economy takes care of itself, once the virus is under control. That has to be the first priority, control the virus. The GOP, as usual, has it backwards, they think that the economy comes first and the virus doesn't matter. That's not how it works. People who are afraid of getting infected are not going to go to restaurants or bars. Of course, you could also go for heard immunity policy and let the virus run wild, as some in the GOP have suggested. I'll let you think about the repercussions.
     
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    I hope I misunderstood your post. You think that athletes should have a priority on the vaccine?
     
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    Wait. Do you mean the same WHO that protected China when they lied about the source of the virus or how it was spreading, when it was spreading and OH YEAH...purposely allowed it to spread all over the world.

    If we only gave the WHO more money to protect China we would have been so much better off. They have such a great track record.

    Learn. Please. Oh please. Learn.

    That video was the most propaganda filled manipulative piece of crap you could possibly post.
     
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    Those same Democrat leaders willing to sacrifice so much won’t sacrifice their own salaries. But they feel everyone else should sacrifice their livelihoods.
     
  8. grapeape

    grapeape Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Rubio, Graham, and McConnell all, on more than one occasion chided the wearing of masks, chided the effectiveness of masks, and all 3 of them attended multiple Trump rallies while not wearing masks.

    Nobody is “against” a vaccine. Your making that up. Pointing out the hypocrisy of those senators is not anti-vaccine. And YES, Trump gets some credit for operation Warp Speed, but you have to admit the irony of all of them getting the Pfizer Vaccine and calling it the “trump Vaccine”......please tel me you get that irony...
     
  9. Bearack

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    You can't undo bankruptcy and foreclosures, especially for millions of American entrepreneurs who's margins are a fine line.

    Suicides are at a new alarming rate, the homelessness population is growing at a staggering rate and over 60% of bars and restaurants will not reopen. Domestic violence calls have increased, in some cases, by 50%.

    I've known too many now that have lost everything... My sister being one of them as her small business has finally succumbed. The cure has become way more deadly than the virus!
     
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    Your exact quote was: "The unadulterated gall of these idiots. McConnell, Rubio, Graham, and many other republican lawmakers who have been telling the American public that the pandemic is a hoax" yet, you can't show me one quote stating otherwise. Either show where they claimed it a hoax or you need to retract the statement as it's false!

    What democrats and even many on this board have stated is that they would not trust vaccine that was rubber stamped by the current administration.

    Even Harris stated emphatically "I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump and it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he's talking about,".

    Andrew Cuomo even stated he that he would not trust any information coming out of this administration and would put together their own review committee, headed by the New York Department of Health to review the vaccine.
     
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    I searched for comments made by McConnell, Rubio, and Graham in which they said that the COVID-19 virus is a "hoax", but I didn't find any. Can you please provide a link for each of these senators?
     
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    She hasn't lost her life. That is more than what can be said for 315,000 Americans. Should we sacrifice a million, so some small businesses can stay open during the exponential virus growth phase?
     
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    Are you seriously claiming that Rubio and the others did NOT play down the severity of the pandemic. “Hoax” is a generalization of what they did and said. But you knew that, and your playing the semantics game.



    So you post quotes about not trusting what the administration says. And EVERY ONE of those are based on trust of what the Trump administration says, NOT on the vaccine. Not Trusting anything that Trump says has been SOP since the day of his inauguration when he made claims that the photographic evidence clearly did not support.

    Trusting what the Trump admin claims about the vaccine, and trusting the vaccine are two different things...
     
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    They downplayed it and all the efforts to mitigate it. “Hoax” was used as a generalization as to their take on the pandemic.
     
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    Oh. I thought you said these three senators said, "hoax"...(?)

    Maybe I should just stick to German after all. In German, words mean exactly what they say....
     
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    I've found here that when people get snarky and say things like
    "Learn. Please. Oh please. Learn" it generally indicates someone that themselves are lacking in info.
    T**** told you lies about WHO by projecting onto them things he said. WHO, for example, said things like "based on the info we have it's not yet spreading but vigilance is required" While T**** was saying the Chinese are doing a great job and have it completely in hand.
    WHO will be essential in vaccinating huge swaths of the world where no one else has any expertise. If those places are left unvaccinated there is zero chance covid will be defeated.
    Thank God by the time they have to kick it into high gear the US will have a president that will restore their funding and work with them.
     
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    Now that the virus is mutating and those new strains unlikely to be affected by the current vaccines, what to do? Maybe the government can set up "going home" centers nationwide a' la "Soylent Green" and we can all peacefully escape the horrors to come.
     
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    Please provide an actual quote of one of these individuals saying the pandemic is a hoax.

    BTW, the masks don't work. If they worked Covid would not be spreading.
     
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    Yes, and the more spread there is before the vaccination is widespread, the higher the chance for the virus to mutate. If we get uncontrolled, exponential growth before universal vaccination, we may dig the vaccine's grave before it is implemented.

    So, what to do? Be responsible and stop going to the bar, wear a mask, and social distance for 2-4 more months, or just let the virus run rampant for the sake of the almighty economy, possibly rendering the vaccine ineffective? I know which side I am on.
     
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    But the sentence doesn’t. Next time I’ll spend hours finding exact quotes of everything they say, rather than a summation
     
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    JFC.

    Who said masks were binary ?
     
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    Et tu AOC? She has no business getting a shot now. Old folks, front line workers, grocery store clerks should be in line ahead of her. She just lost a lot of style points.
     
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    Given your comment about the "almighty economy" I have to asked you a serious question that I hope you don't dodge. How do you earn a living? If you know a way to earn a living without participation in the almighty economy please pass your secret on to the rest of us.
     
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    By "summation" do you mean a talking point from the fake news?
     
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    No. Summation of their actual position.
     

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