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How much a case of Whole Foods locating itself in towns full of young hipsters, and Cracker Barrel largely providing its clientele with a chair from which they can await the arrival of The Reaper?

Sorry, from the link they said that "those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal"...They wanted everything to go back to normal for themselves. How would it have been possible to 'protect the most vulnerable'? Lock them in a bubble? No contact with the outside world? Again, one of the major issues of this whole deal is the asymptomatic transmission. The fact that the person who's supposed to be able to safely take care of Grandma could very well be infected and contagious but feeling fine....all the more likely if everybody outside of Grandma's house was gathering in groups maskless. Remember, this was being proposed back in Oct 2020 before rapid testing or vaccines could be acquired at the Walgreens down the street. Aside from the impracticality of locking up the vulnerable, all of this business about only needing to shield the vulnerable ignores the fact that thousands of otherwise healthy people have died or are living with long-term affects from COVID. 2 years into this, the people who are still suggesting that the only required mitigation measures are 'stay home if you're sick' or 'stay home if you're vulnerable' are just being ignorant to how this thing spreads. IMO opinion, 95% of it is being too damn selfish to put a mask on and bringing a "fuck you, you can't tell me what to do" attitude to the whole thing. Don't think there's a way to prove that counterfactual, but why not look at the comparison between US and countries that have had stricter COVID restrictions. The infection/death rate per capita in Canada is insanely low compared to US (less insanely low once Omicron came along). You could argue that the Canadian restrictions weren't worth it (I think I heard something about some truckers doing that right now), but the relatively low infection and death rates seem to show that mask mandates, enforcing vaccines to be able to eat in restaurants, widely available rapid testing and the like were doing the trick.

CNN is obviously biased...to the point where I've been pretty turned off on reading their stuff when you can practically hear the authors' eyes rolling as they type. But IMO, for what it's worth, they've still got a pretty firm foothold in reality. ET, on the other hand, presents itself as the one place where you can find truth amidst a media ecosystem that's lying to you...That's the fucking banner at the top of their homepage. The premise of their existence is nipping at the heels of a conspiracy theory, and their content will lead you straight down that rabbit hole.

Well played, sir....well played

I've clicked enough links to Epoch Times articles to know that no good lies there. As far as The Great Barrington Declaration, I've seen this held up a few times before and I don't understand how anybody can consider it relevant today. This was basically a bunch of doctors - back in October 2020, before vaccines were available - saying that they wanted everything to go back to normal. A quote from 'The Declaration': Again, this was from October 2020. No vaccines, but far enough into COVID to know that asymptomatic transmission was a major deal. So: A - Nobody's advocating for widespread lockdowns today, which seems to me to make 'The Great Barrington Declaration' not applicable to the current COVID mitigation measures. B - The fact that these guys were saying 'stay home if you're sick and drop all other restrictions' back in Oct. 2020 shows that they were being selfish and ignorant to how COVID spreads. The fact that many of them have an 'MD' in their title doesn't change that.

To be fair to Ron, he’s peacefully and patiently waiting in GA for SHTF. These asshats were out trying to instigate it *EDIT a typo

From what I've read of your posts, I'd take your advice on just about anything related to international conditions. Unfortunately I've got a ways to go before I can consider any of those options

I guess if you can't defend your position, you can always just do whatever the hell this ^^^ was.

Yes, we’ve all read your posts here

And once again you hold up the Fox News caricature of CRT and use that as evidence that CRT is comparable to the Klan. America was built around slavery Racist practices were built into the laws of the nation until ridiculously recently. The affects of those laws with respect to the ability of affected communities to build generational wealth are still highly evident today. Understanding that history might help kids put the things they observe into a better context. Contrary to what Tucker tells you, the point isn’t to make white people feel bad about themselves or place blame for the current situation, just add some context. Oh, the horrors that poor little Ethan might have to drive by the ghetto and do more than wonder why those people can’t just pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

When I was an illegal immigrant to Venezuela (I was young and dumb and my employer at the time told me that 'everybody only had a tourist visa'), I had to leave every 90 days to rubber stamp/renew the tourist visa. For the first year or so they'd just fly me out for the weekend and I got to have some good times in Aruba and Bonaire...never made Curacao. Then they figured out they could just loan me to operations in Colombia for a month and get my visa renewed without financing my vacation.

His voice is the only one I have in my head when I think of the phrase 'coagulated blood balls'....which admittedly is not often

Agreed, but color me thankful for an asshole in GOP leadership who hasn't completely severed his tether to reality.

Methistan?

They made a calculation that this was the right play politically….I REALLY hope that they calculated wrong, for the sake of the country that I had to work to become a citizen of.

I'm so sorry to hear that you broke your Googling finger. You sure as shit seem comfortable posting/sharing second-hand info when it aligns with the points that you're trying to make. Hell, it seems one of your favourite pastimes is sharing your interpretation of what "Woke" say, but it's too much to find direct quotes of Rogan??? Or did you just read them and agree with them? Maybe, just maybe, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell didn't want to hold a news conference and shout the same bullshit they're protesting into a microphone. Are they supposed to hold a news conference or "Shut up and player guitar"? As always, you're all over the map with a lengthy post of blithering bullshit peppered with some $3 words to attempt to sound intelligent.

I bet a lot of them would post some great cookie recipes though

Ha, you should talk. 40+ pages into your 'Joke' thread and not ONE pirate joke...SAD

You're giving him too much strategic credit...It's simpler than that: he's right, stupid scientists are wrong.

The south where I was working struck me as very westernized and I did meet several Ex-pats there. I think I would have disagreed with your comment on stability much more before yesterday, seeing several fist fights and protests break out in Istanbul airport after we were stuck there for 30+ hours...TBF though, it wasn't Turkish people leading the protests or starting the fights.

Just coming off of a week in Antalya, Turkey. A month ago I’d never heard of the place but now it’s on my list of places to consider retiring to.

What analogy??? You straight up called it "the hallmark of mediocrity." You're cute when you back peddle

I’ve been lucky enough to work in quite a few different countries and right now I’m sitting in a pub in Turkey, headed back to DFW tomorrow after spending a week with a CM here who’s building a product I’m developing at work. Being over here reminded me a lot of my time in South America, as in both cases I was working with some amazingly smart and talented people, and I was cognizant of the fact that they’re at least every bit as capable as I am and in many cases much more so, but we’re accustomed to very different standards of living purely due to me having the dumb luck of being born in Canada. I don’t feel guilty for what I have as I’ve worked hard for every bit of it, but I’m sure as fuck not cocky about it either

I believe the term I’m looking for is called ‘whoosh’