I didn't coordinate my submission with anyone. I doubt Michael did either. I suspect the editors may have thought it was fun to juxtapose the titles, but beyond that I am not aware of any explicate plan. I submitted mine Friday; it was published early monday which is about the turn around I've seen so far on my articles.
Excess Deaths at this point is massively confounded with “Excess Deaths caused by the Vaccine”
How many people have died after getting a vaccine?
Between December 2020 and July 19th, 2021, VAERS received 6,207 reports of death (0.0018% of doses) among people who got a vaccine, but this does not mean the vaccine caused these deaths. Doctors and safety monitors carefully review the details of each case to see if it might be linked to the vaccine. There are three deaths that appear to be linked to blood clots that occurred after people got the J&J vaccine. Since we now know how to correctly treat people who develop these blood clots, future deaths related to this very rare side effect can be prevented.
Really? He's pointing to the "all the peaceful social justice protests" (which he doesn't really think were peaceful) and all but saying what about those? He's saying quite clearly that we haven't reached that level of "violence" so this wasn't even a protest, much less and insurrection. Because "what about" all those peaceful protests?
The new U.K. study also found Covid vaccines reduce the risk of hospitalization from omicron across the board, though a booster dose provides the highest level of protection. The latest data adds to a growing body of evidence demonstrating that although the vaccines have taken a hit from omicron, they still provide significant levels of protection compared to people who are unvaccinated.
Analyzing the deaths in this northeastern region between December 23 and January 12 per 100,000 inhabitants, the mortality rate among individuals aged 70 and 80 is five times higher for the unvaccinated. Something similar occurs in other age demographics. In the 70-79 population, 50 deaths per 100,000 people are reported among the unvaccinated, compared to 10 per 100,000 among the vaccinated, i.e. five times less. Meanwhile, in the 60-69 demographic, the disparity is repeated: the mortality rate among the unvaccinated is 15 per 100,000 people while, for the vaccinated, it is 5.5 per 100,000.
He's trolling the fact that a great many people on the right don't see the 2020 Social Justice Protests as peaceful because some of those protests resulted in riots with significant property damage. It's an old, debunked "whataboutism" that many of us are weary of because its lazy.
In Mississippi every time you are tested you are asked vaccine status. Of course, people can and probably do lie, and we are dead last in the nation in full vaccination.
I mean that Republicans keep cutting taxes - which have yet to pay for themselves through economic growth - and the refusing to cut spending because they want to own the Libs (which is what shrinking government to the size it can be drowned in the bathtub is all about). They then sit back and cackle when Democrats fail to do their dirty work for them.
Americans supported the Biden Harris ticket by 7 million more votes then Trump Pence received. I'd be genuinely shocked if that didn't include a healthy dose of Obama to Trump voters.
Trump was a registered Democrat until 2011. He raised funds for Bill Clinton. It may be his ultimate Grift that he got Republicans to elect a Democrat to the White House.
And lest be clear that Al Gore conceded in 2000. Kerry conceded in 2004. and Hillary conceded in 2016. Trump has yet to concede.
Heck, just write everything Manchin has said he’ll support in a bill and run it through. Who the fish would oppose it within the party?
Democratic leadership allowed him to do just that. He balked and ran away because the White House had the temerity to publicly say they were tired of endless negotiations and they didn't think he was sincere. He wasn't sincere. In addition to trashing his own bill because he's apparently thin skinned, he spent months "negotiating" a watered down voting rights bill, allegedly with Republican support, which Republicans then failed to support.
Your mileage may vary, but neither of those outcomes suggest a man willing to actually carry his party's water.
I note that after this was submitted to the editors for review and publication, Politico added fuel to the fire:
The draft executive order shows that the weeks between Election Day and the Capitol attack could have been even more chaotic than they were. It credulously cites conspiracy theories about election fraud in Georgia and Michigan, as well as debunked notions about Dominion voting machines.
The order empowers the defense secretary to “seize, collect, retain and analyze all machines, equipment, electronically stored information, and material records required for retention under” a U.S. law that relates to preservation of election records. It also cites a lawsuit filed in 2017 against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
White House staff - whether political or career - don't just gin up Executive Orders, and certainly don't do so with this level of specificity unless they have been told to. Certain parts of it - like references to a previously unknown National Security Memorandum, suggest it came for the computer of someone high up with substantial security clearance.
Normal Presidents don't have such orders created for them. It's not a part of the practice of what is prepared following the loss of an election. And it further points to an Administration - of a certain party - willing to break laws, norms, and whatever else needed to be broken to stay in power.
There is a long list of things that need to be done to reform the police. None of them are a magic bullet. Many of them will have no impact on the other things that also need to be done.
Seems to me that means we need to start over with a new approach, not keep looking for band-aids for the current one.
That horse is out of the gate, down the pasture, and over the next hill -
Ninety-two percent of government employees have been vaccinated against COVID-19, with the Department of Agriculture reporting the lowest coverage rate and the Agency for International Development topping the list, according to compliance data released by the Biden administration Wednesday.
The small number unvaccinated are unfortunate, but collectively we are WAY ahead of general US statistics.
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I didn't coordinate my submission with anyone. I doubt Michael did either. I suspect the editors may have thought it was fun to juxtapose the titles, but beyond that I am not aware of any explicate plan. I submitted mine Friday; it was published early monday which is about the turn around I've seen so far on my articles.
Correlation doesn't imply or equal causation.
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And Damon wants to troll us by equating the two.
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https://covid-101.org/science/how-many-people-have-died-from-the-vaccine-in-the-u-s/
We've lost 889,197 to this disease. Quit it.
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You don't believe Joe Biden is legally president, do you?
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Really? He's pointing to the "all the peaceful social justice protests" (which he doesn't really think were peaceful) and all but saying what about those? He's saying quite clearly that we haven't reached that level of "violence" so this wasn't even a protest, much less and insurrection. Because "what about" all those peaceful protests?
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England's data is consistent with the US data:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/31/omicron-hospitalization-risk-upside-vaccine-protection-good-uk-study-.html
Spain seems to be backing this up:
https://english.elpais.com/society/2022-01-18/the-success-of-covid-19-vaccines-against-omicron-vaccinated-up-to-five-times-less-likely-to-be-hospitalized.html
We have data. You just don't like it. Which I get, but I can't really help you.
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He's trolling the fact that a great many people on the right don't see the 2020 Social Justice Protests as peaceful because some of those protests resulted in riots with significant property damage. It's an old, debunked "whataboutism" that many of us are weary of because its lazy.
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In Mississippi every time you are tested you are asked vaccine status. Of course, people can and probably do lie, and we are dead last in the nation in full vaccination.
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Congress was violently attacked. To try and stop the certification of an election. Seems like a great use of that word.
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We have spent close to 40 years cutting taxes and not cutting spending.
Congress can't adhere to its own appropriations deadlines.
2/3rds of federal spending (in total dollars) can be accounted for in revenue (in total dollars).
Discretionary spending (the part Congress appropriates every year) amounts to 1/3rd of spending.
So either you raise revenues, you close the Executive Branch, or you severely cut mandatory spending.
Its really that simple. And that maddening. And that frightening.
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His trial starts 18 July. He may still be in the appeals phase of his sentence by next January, but we should know whether he's convicted or not.
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I mean that Republicans keep cutting taxes - which have yet to pay for themselves through economic growth - and the refusing to cut spending because they want to own the Libs (which is what shrinking government to the size it can be drowned in the bathtub is all about). They then sit back and cackle when Democrats fail to do their dirty work for them.
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We have numbers:
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#covidnet-hospitalizations-vaccination
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Americans supported the Biden Harris ticket by 7 million more votes then Trump Pence received. I'd be genuinely shocked if that didn't include a healthy dose of Obama to Trump voters.
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Democrats shoot too.
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Trump was a registered Democrat until 2011. He raised funds for Bill Clinton. It may be his ultimate Grift that he got Republicans to elect a Democrat to the White House.
And lest be clear that Al Gore conceded in 2000. Kerry conceded in 2004. and Hillary conceded in 2016. Trump has yet to concede.
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Democratic leadership allowed him to do just that. He balked and ran away because the White House had the temerity to publicly say they were tired of endless negotiations and they didn't think he was sincere. He wasn't sincere. In addition to trashing his own bill because he's apparently thin skinned, he spent months "negotiating" a watered down voting rights bill, allegedly with Republican support, which Republicans then failed to support.
Your mileage may vary, but neither of those outcomes suggest a man willing to actually carry his party's water.
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We also have one party dead set against raising revenue to pay the banks. NO private business could or would operate that way very long.
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I note that after this was submitted to the editors for review and publication, Politico added fuel to the fire:
White House staff - whether political or career - don't just gin up Executive Orders, and certainly don't do so with this level of specificity unless they have been told to. Certain parts of it - like references to a previously unknown National Security Memorandum, suggest it came for the computer of someone high up with substantial security clearance.
Normal Presidents don't have such orders created for them. It's not a part of the practice of what is prepared following the loss of an election. And it further points to an Administration - of a certain party - willing to break laws, norms, and whatever else needed to be broken to stay in power.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/21/read-the-never-issued-trump-order-that-would-have-seized-voting-machines-527572
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Just don't call it a coup.
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Of course he is. Its all he has . . . .
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Seems to me that means we need to start over with a new approach, not keep looking for band-aids for the current one.
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That horse is out of the gate, down the pasture, and over the next hill -
The small number unvaccinated are unfortunate, but collectively we are WAY ahead of general US statistics.
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-11-24/biden-administration-92-of-federal-workers-vaccinated-against-covid-19
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A friend of mine in Seattle has been part of this:
https://twitter.com/TechBlocSEA/status/1480625714151919616?s=20
She says its PTSD inducing stuff to pull it all together. I believe her.
And yet I don't see this changing anything in the discussion.
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Nope because cops are still doing it with their cameras on. Or doing after turning their cameras off.