Coronavirus

[Al-O-Meter]

Last night on the evening news it was the lead story on every station with at least 15 minutes devoted to it.

There is also a state-wide manhunt for some individuals who escaped from a quarantine camp in Australia. None of them ever tested positive for COVID but their escaping the prison camp was caused a reaction in Australian law enforcement that looked straight out of a movie.

Just this morning Germany has announced that all of its citizens are under house arrest until they can prove vaccination status.

In Canada you now need government papers to cross state lines and to board any airplane or train.

The pandemic is clearly winding down. We have good vaccines. We have good medical treatments such as Regeneron. The "new" variant seems to be tame compared to what we just faced, and yet governments around the world are getting more stringent in their restrictions.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Im not seeing the hysteria.


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No Fish, it's hysteria. Stop being a sheeple. Everyone is afraid of some covid flu thingie. It's just the flu. People have been panicking about this crap for 2 years now. Most of the people who died were just fat and old. Stop being a sheeple. Stick a flashlight up your ***. Don't let it dominate you.

 

[One Brow]

On February 3, 2021 it was clearly shown that politics and the interests of political donors outweighed scientists and data in forming CDC policy.

I interpret those events in just the opposite fashion; the science being put foremost instead of the politically expedient.

On that subject, there was an interesting exchange with an African reporter and Dr. Anthony Fauci. The reporter asked why Dr. Fauci had personally authorized a travel ban against Mozambique due to Omicron when there wasn't a single known case of Omicron anywhere in Mozambique. Dr. Fauci said that was a very good question and then he went on to the next question without even attempting any sort of justification.

Your source has lied to you again.

“You know that’s a very good question and important question, and we did struggle with that,” Fauci answered. “But we wanted to see if we could buy time temporarily, so I do hope that this gets sorted out and lifted before it has any significant impact on your country.”

Dr. Fauci defends southern Africa travel restrictions over Omicron variant

Dr. Fauci defended the restrictions on travel to the US from eight nations in southern Africa after confirming the first case of the Omicron variant in the US.

nypost.com

You might consider such justification inadequate, but it is clearly there.

 

[Avery]

I'm honestly not too worried about this new variant simply because I don't know anything about it. We don't know for sure that it's more contagious, more deadly or any of those things. Early indications are that it isn't but as data matures, we'll know more.

Markets are fueled by speculation and easily scared by it - see the huge peaks and valleys from the Dow and other global markets lately. A good time to buy low IMO.

What's been hilarious to me is the notion that D's are behind the new variant because some people apparently think not solving Covid is somehow a winning strategy to future elections when common sense tells you that if we're talking about Covid in mid-terms and 2024, D's are going to get sliced up.

 

[Al-O-Meter]

You might consider such justification inadequate, but it is clearly there.

Fair enough. It is indeed a justification. I concede the point.

 

[MVP]

In Canada you now need government papers to cross state lines and to board any airplane or train.

You need just to show your QR code on the phone. No papers needed.

 

[Al-O-Meter]

Markets are fueled by speculation and easily scared by it

The markets are scared by the government reaction to the virus, not the virus itself. The virus doesn't order governments to lock their people down or halt trade. Governments do that on their own and use the virus to explain it. As for the markets being spooked at governments completely overreacting to this new variant, why wouldn't they? They see the news just like we all do. They know about enacted travel bans and closed borders due to this new variant that has yet to kill a single person.

 

[Deleted member 365]

You need just to show your QR code on the phone. No papers needed.

You gotta love all of this Holocaust comparison to simple and rational protective measures.

The other night to watch a musical I had to show my vaccine card or a picture of it from my phone. It took like 5 seconds and made perfect sense in order to watch a musical with hundreds of people. I'm sure there are probably apps we could've used too.

The way the right has weaponized these logical measures and making it sound like this is 1930s Germany is just astounding to me.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Republicans: Private companies and da gubbamint want to see your papers or you'll be treated like a Jew in Nazi Germany. This is the Holocaust! Dr Fauci is Mengele! No more Fauci ouchie or masks for me!

Also Republicans: Biden isn't doing enough to end this pandemic. This pandemic should've ended a long time ago.

 

[LogGrad98]

On that question, I can give you the exact date as for when you could no longer trust the CDC on the strength of their word alone: February 3, 2021.

That was the day CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky gave an official press briefing from the CDC in front of a background that said CDC all over it and said "Vaccinations of teachers is not a prerequisite for safely reopening schools". A few hours later not-a-doctor Jen Psaki said Dr. Rochelle Walensky was speaking in her personal capacity and not on behalf of the CDC. The administration made CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky immediately do another press conference to disavow her earlier statements to make the opposite the official CDC line. On February 3, 2021 it was clearly shown that politics and the interests of political donors outweighed scientists and data in forming CDC policy.

On that subject, there was an interesting exchange with an African reporter and Dr. Anthony Fauci. The reporter asked why Dr. Fauci had personally authorized a travel ban against Mozambique due to Omicron when there wasn't a single known case of Omicron anywhere in Mozambique. Dr. Fauci said that was a very good question and then he went on to the next question without even attempting any sort of justification.

Trump officials bragged about pressuring CDC to alter Covid reports, emails reveal

The investigation was first launched after reports surfaced that Trump demanded the right to alter CDC reports.

www.cnbc.com

 

[fishonjazz]

Last night on the evening news it was the lead story on every station with at least 15 minutes devoted to it.

Thats on you for watching the news. I said IM not seeing the hysteria. Im not into news much though and NEVER watch it on the TV and rarely ever click on any new related things online. So like I said, Im not seeing the hysteria. Also it sounds like there was 15 minutes devoted to to something. I saw 15 minutes of coverage for college football recently. Not sure that makes it hysteria or not though. Could simply be coverage of a topic that people want more info about. IDK.

 

[fishonjazz]

I'm honestly not too worried about this new variant simply because I don't know anything about it. We don't know for sure that it's more contagious, more deadly or any of those things. Early indications are that it isn't but as data matures, we'll know more.

Markets are fueled by speculation and easily scared by it - see the huge peaks and valleys from the Dow and other global markets lately. A good time to buy low IMO.

What's been hilarious to me is the notion that D's are behind the new variant because some people apparently think not solving Covid is somehow a winning strategy to future elections when common sense tells you that if we're talking about Covid in mid-terms and 2024, D's are going to get sliced up.

Well you see the dems created the covid hoax to hurt trumps re election chances and once the election was over it was just going to magically disappear. Now they are creating this new variant and more covid HYSTERIA to help biden and the democrats win elections apparently. Its like, super convenient.