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[quote quote=2580][quote quote=2574]How many deaths? How many still have it? The point is that for these guys and 99.999% of people under 40, this is no worse than a bad cold. Herd immunity and be done with it. In California less than 2% of all residents have had Covid and .0003535% of the population has died from the disease (14,606) yet the state is shut down to hurt Trump, everyone else be damned. Is this pragmatic or just punitive?[/quote] Yes, exactly, but the blame will still come. It will be “because of Trump.” It’s just too easy. Friend of a friend was planning a trip home to see older parents. Her parents are worried so asked her to get a COVID test before visiting. She, a twenty something with no symptoms, turned up positive. She otherwise would have never been tested. Methinks that a huge proportion of the younger population has already been through COVID, yet here we are…trying to scare the bejeesus out of them.[/quote]
Positive for Covid or positive for antibodies?
Since you’ve turned the question around and you are really asking about Rocky, I’ll answer this way.
I don’t really care if someone is quoting Mother Jones or Alex Jones. State your position and facts supporting same, I’m good either way. I may not (ever) agree with you, but I prefer a reasoned position rather than a constant drumbeat of “Orangeman is bad”.
Best thought from the article –
“Systemic racism” is a meaningless phrase that blames everyone for the despicable actions of a few. “White privilege” is a rhetorical cudgel to justify redistribution of wealth and violence against white people. “The long overdue reckoning about race” has been ongoing since before the country itself started, and it will never end, nor should it. Facts are facts. Slavery was evil. Jim Crow was evil. Racism is evil. But teaching white people to hate themselves does not resolve that evil; it just compounds it.If the electoral college fails to give a candidate enough votes to win, the president is selected by the House.
In a different scenario, why would Pelosi ascend to the job? Wouldn’t Trump continue as President until his successor was determined?
Ted has declared himself a lighting rod to bothe sides. His next brilliant move will be handing the police departement over to an African-American woman on the city council. 🙄
So now we will count retired teachers dieing in nursing homes like they were actually in the classroom?
Rocky, I don’t believe anyone voting for Biden will wake up screaming WTF did I do!.
They are voting against Trump, and will be happy doing so. No regrets.
Can’t put my hands on it now, but several months ago I read that the last one hundred years weather in California was wetter than normal.
Oregon has had vote by mail for over 20 years. Washington went vote by mail in 2004.
Neither state sends out ballots “unsolicited”. Ballots are sent to registered voters. In Washington, voters must sign the envelope so the signature is checked against what is on file.
I have not seen any conclusive evidence mail in voting is more subject to fraud than walk in. In 2018, 142 faudulent votes out of 3.2 million ballots cast in Washington. History has shown walk in voting has it own problems and fraud.
The real problem is states that don’t have vote by mail will have a logisitical nightmare receiving, counting and validating results in a timely basis. This is from an interview with Kim Wyman, Washington Sec of State.
“WYMAN: Well, you know, when you look at the states that have moved to vote-by-mail or are moving currently to vote-by-mail, it’s taken them, you know, five to 10 years to do that because you need to build in the capacity for the volume. You need to have high-speed ballot sorters and envelope sorters to deal with the incoming mail. And right now the question is, is that equipment even in the supply chain? Is it even available? You also need to build up the staffing and the space requirements, especially in COVID-19, to be able to have that machinery to have that production.
So I think that it’s a heavy lift for states that are in low percentage of absentee ballots currently, like, you know – like Tennessee, where you see 2% of their ballots cast by mail. They could probably have an expansion of absentee voting, but they couldn’t make the switch completely to vote-by-mail between now and November.”
It would not surprise me if this election is decided in the House.
Torbett, who is White, is a spiritual seeker and “racial podcaster” committed to “helping other White people recognize their own trauma and discontent as catalysts for the dismantling of systems of oppression that are killing us all, and killing Black and Brown people first.”
WTF does that mean? Who comes up with this sheet? I get an image of a roomful of white people, dutifully shaking their heads in agreement before asking, “Rev. Jones, is ok to drink the koolaid now?”
“Strzok told The Atlantic magazine that the dossier, written by former British spy Christopher Steele – one of the agency’s key informants in the Russia probe – “was very typical of information that the FBI often receives.”
And there it is. The Atlantic. Again. Won’t be long and The Atlantic will headline Elvis sitings and space aliens living at Area 51.
Portland area is experiencing 40-50 mph winds and AQI of 120-160 depending on where you are. Started at 5 PM, expected to last until 5 PM today.
I was playing golf when the storm moved in. Air quality went from 40s to over 100 in about 20 minutes. This one is nasty….my garage smells like an ashtray.
