50% of 2 is one unless this too is a racist statement.

Explain that one slowly word for word ..,

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bearister said:

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going4roses said:

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Who's bright idea was it to open **** back up and no fricking mask?

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The American people lack the emotional maturity and personal discipline to come to grips with the fact this pandemic is not over.

Now with regard to the Olympics, that is on the IOC:

Cases surge to 6-month high in Tokyo a week before Olympics


https://apnews.com/article/sports-lifestyle-2020-tokyo-olympics-japan-olympic-team-tokyo-47d81e15c1b320bc37b721160a4b7bdc

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The frustrating thing is that the pandemic COULD BASICALLY BE OVER in this country, were it not for the immature, undisciplined, selfish, ignorant, stupid people who have not gotten the safe, effective, free vaccine.

Thanks for nothing, you stupid f***s.

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Reporter: "What's your message to platforms like Facebook?"

President Biden: "They're killing people." pic.twitter.com/jrAvQpG7i0

— The Hill (@thehill) July 16, 2021

Biden said Facebook is killing people.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdgM5oeu/

This is part of the problem

dimitrig said:

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BearForce2 said:

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Big C said:

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bearister said:

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going4roses said:

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Who's bright idea was it to open **** back up and no fricking mask?

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The American people lack the emotional maturity and personal discipline to come to grips with the fact this pandemic is not over.

Now with regard to the Olympics, that is on the IOC:

Cases surge to 6-month high in Tokyo a week before Olympics


https://apnews.com/article/sports-lifestyle-2020-tokyo-olympics-japan-olympic-team-tokyo-47d81e15c1b320bc37b721160a4b7bdc

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The frustrating thing is that the pandemic COULD BASICALLY BE OVER in this country, were it not for the immature, undisciplined, selfish, ignorant, stupid people who have not gotten the safe, effective, free vaccine.

Thanks for nothing, you stupid f***s.

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Reporter: "What's your message to platforms like Facebook?"

President Biden: "They're killing people." pic.twitter.com/jrAvQpG7i0

— The Hill (@thehill) July 16, 2021

Biden said Facebook is killing people.

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Sounds about right.

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Andrew Cuomo.

In his defense it's NOT mis or disinformation...it was a deliberate act of hurting people! Which is ok in Psaki Pstandards! pic.twitter.com/ZrcKc1Sjbs

— Bobby Trousers🇺🇲🐃🍗 (@rob3072) July 17, 2021

I don't know how to convince people to get vaccines, but hectoring them as idiots isn't likely to work. Moreover, while the partisan divide is real, it is also only one divide. The least vaccinated group - black Americans - is also the most Democratic leaning. pic.twitter.com/41XD4Dao1O

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) July 17, 2021

I wonder what disincentives have the Democrats created to discourage their own constituents from getting the vaccine?

The closest we may ever get to Anthony Fauci skull****ing Rand Paul.

Not saying I agree with this guy, but does anyone have a reason why all of the sudden the right wing outrage machine has decide it's time to promote vaccines to its base? Have they just finally figured out it's better if their viewers die less?

legit think someone at the RNC ran the numbers on projected death rates and the partisanship of the unvaccinated and realized that Covid could cost them Wisconsin or New Hampshire in 2022 and the memo just went around yesterday https://t.co/vMfQumUSyU

— Michael Caley (@MC_of_A) July 20, 2021

I don't know if it's as much the fact that their individual viewers/voters are dying as it is the fact that their numbers of viewers/voters will diminish as it becomes more and more apparent that they're on the wrong side of history.

It's pretty powerful when -- each and every day -- hundreds of Americans die and almost all, like 99%, are not fully vaccinated. Even at the micro level... Uncle Homer died from COVID. Was he vaccinated? No. Aunt Edna got vaccinated. Did it hurt her? Does she seemed controlled by the 5G? No. Word spreads.

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Not saying I agree with this guy, but does anyone have a reason why all of the sudden the right wing outrage machine has decide it's time to promote vaccines to its base? Have they just finally figured out it's better if their viewers die less?

legit think someone at the RNC ran the numbers on projected death rates and the partisanship of the unvaccinated and realized that Covid could cost them Wisconsin or New Hampshire in 2022 and the memo just went around yesterday https://t.co/vMfQumUSyU

— Michael Caley (@MC_of_A) July 20, 2021

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Probably multiple factors. If I had to guess, they got some really bad internal polling and also saw the stock market crashing and Wall Street blaming it on the bad COVID numbers.

For as much as we're a hopelessly polarized country, ~70% of adults (and I'd guess more like ~75% of likely voters) are already at least partly vaccinated. It's hard to get 70-75% of the country to agree on anything!

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 21, 2021

Fox News has blood on their hands. pic.twitter.com/qZ6vtQWe2L

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 22, 2021

Data: CSSE at Johns Hopkins University. (Rhode Island and Iowa data from CDC, July 12-19.) Map: Axios Visuals


Prominent Republicans find new enthusiasm for COVID-19 vaccines

https://www.axios.com/republicans-coronavirus-vaccines-resistance-trump-a02544f7-c3ee-443a-a2f7-ab9c83e86c98.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top

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10 or so days ago there was 17 Covid hospitalizations in Contra Costa County. This morning, 39. Something up.

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Date of above post: 7/10

Today: 68 in CCC hospitals

https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/hospital


" The criticism of those who are eligible to be vaccinated and have chosen not to get the shot despite vaccines being available follows a concerted effort among conspiracy theorists and others on social media and conservative media outlets such as Fox News to sow baseless doubt over the safety or need for vaccinations despite a slew of evidence over their ability to shield people from the worst effects of the virus, including death.

Some of these falsehoods have been embraced by elected Republicans, while other senior party members have refused to actively endorse the uptake of vaccines, citing personal choice.

In Florida, the Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, this week pointed to data showing the vast majority of hospitalized Covid-19 patients hadn't received shots. "These vaccines are saving lives," said DeSantis, who recently began selling campaign merchandise mocking masks and medical experts, such Dr Anthony Fauci, the leading public health official in the US and adviser to the US president."

Republican governor says 'time to start blaming unvaccinated' for rise in cases


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/23/kay-ivey-republican-blame-unvaccinated-covid-cases?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Hospitalized right-wing radio host 'fighting for his life' with COVID



https://mol.im/a/9818131

The Delta Variant Thrives in a State of Political and Public Health Discord | Kaiser Health News


https://khn.org/news/article/missouri-covid-delta-variant-thrives-political-discord-public-health/


Florida, Missouri and Texas now account for 40% of new coronavirus cases in U.S.


https://news.yahoo.com/florida-missouri-and-texas-now-account-for-40-percent-of-new-us-coronavirus-cases-172032337.html

"We were all really surprised that [conservative rural white men] ended up being our most vaccine-hesitant population, and it's not necessarily because of mistrust of government, it's because of an ideology that if I get this vaccine I am somehow placating the left wing of the political spectrum," she said."



"To see people sacrificing their own health and wellbeing and that of their families and community to spite this perceived political benefit to the left is just really dumbfounding."

Inside a Tennessee hospital grappling with Delta and vaccine hesitancy


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/24/tennessee-coronavirus-covid-delta-variant-cases-vaccines?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

*The only silver lining here is that these heinous people are self eliminating themselves from our society

Covid skit

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdW6XjxJ/

One thing that interests me about the numbers is that while we're seeing a surge in COVID cases, COVID death rates have remained low.

I know deaths have been a lagging metric, but it seems like we're past the point where you would have expected to start seeing a rise in deaths corresponding to the earlier rise in new cases, and we aren't seeing it. The vaccines are doing the job.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

"Is it better for children to catch Sars-CoV-2, as they do the common cold, or is it better to protect them through vaccinations, and measures such as social distancing and face masks? This is the question many countries are now asking.

The current approach in England seems to be to let teenagers get on with it and see what happens once they're infected. The result will be an uncontrolled epidemic among younger age groups. Some British scientists aren't alarmed by this, pointing to other diseases such as seasonal flu, which cause more hospitalisations among children than Covid-19. By contrast, paediatricians in the US argue that exposing children to a new virus with potentially long-term complications is a major risk that should be avoided."


Will Covid become a disease of the young? The world is watching England to find out


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/26/covid-young-people-england-virus-spread-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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"Is it better for children to catch Sars-CoV-2, as they do the common cold, or is it better to protect them through vaccinations, and measures such as social distancing and face masks? This is the question many countries are now asking.

The current approach in England seems to be to let teenagers get on with it and see what happens once they're infected. The result will be an uncontrolled epidemic among younger age groups. Some British scientists aren't alarmed by this, pointing to other diseases such as seasonal flu, which cause more hospitalisations among children than Covid-19. By contrast, paediatricians in the US argue that exposing children to a new virus with potentially long-term complications is a major risk that should be avoided."


Will Covid become a disease of the young? The world is watching England to find out


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/26/covid-young-people-england-virus-spread-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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That quote is sad as it basically says

No protection VS vaccines, masks, and social distancing .

Unvaccinated children should wear masks and practice social distancing. My 18 month can handle wearing a mask. Small exposure is better than exposure to large amounts of the virus.

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One thing that interests me about the numbers is that while we're seeing a surge in COVID cases, COVID death rates have remained low.

I know deaths have been a lagging metric, but it seems like we're past the point where you would have expected to start seeing a rise in deaths corresponding to the earlier rise in new cases, and we aren't seeing it. The vaccines are doing the job.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

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Vaccination rates are pretty high for seniors - 80% fully vaxxed and 90% having had at least one dose. Given that the vast majority of deaths were from that age group (75-80% I think), it shouldn't be surprising that we've massively reduced the death count.

If we had that level of vaccination for everyone eligible for a vaccine, we would be much closer to normal now and the level of deaths would slow to a trickle.

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One thing that interests me about the numbers is that while we're seeing a surge in COVID cases, COVID death rates have remained low.

I know deaths have been a lagging metric, but it seems like we're past the point where you would have expected to start seeing a rise in deaths corresponding to the earlier rise in new cases, and we aren't seeing it. The vaccines are doing the job.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

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Vaccination rates are pretty high for seniors - 80% fully vaxxed and 90% having had at least one dose. Given that the vast majority of deaths were from that age group (75-80% I think), it shouldn't be surprising that we've massively reduced the death count.

If we had that level of vaccination for everyone eligible for a vaccine, we would be much closer to normal now and the level of deaths would slow to a trickle.

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Totally. Though I wish more of the reporting on COVID would focus on the "deaths" number rather than "cases." Now that we have so many people vaccinated (especially in the high-risk category) you can no longer assume that case increases will be followed by deaths. And deaths are really the key problem; no one minds just having some cold/flu symptoms and coming through it without issue, even if that was a COVID case.

"Death rates remain steadily low" doesn't make for good headlines, I guess.

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10 or so days ago there was 17 Covid hospitalizations in Contra Costa County. This morning, 39. Something up.

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Above post was 7/10. Today 83 in CCC hospitals.

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10 or so days ago there was 17 Covid hospitalizations in Contra Costa County. This morning, 39. Something up.

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Above post was 7/10. Today 83 in CCC hospitals.

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117 as of this morning.









Many high-profile Republicans from the Alabama governor, Kay Ivey, to the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, to the Fox News commentator Sean Hannity are now becoming more proactive in encouraging Americans to get vaccinated.

Pollsters, however, say their party's base remains unswayed, with conservative Americans much more likely to be unvaccinated and hesitant about getting the shot.

Top Republicans' new tone on vaccines having little effect on hardcore holdouts


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/29/republicans-coronavirus-vaccine-hesitancy-base-pollsters?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

At this point I think the only things that will move the needle are vaccine requirements. Not for literally everyone, but to hold certain jobs or attend certain events, yes.

sycasey said:

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At this point I think the only things that will move the needle are vaccine requirements. Not for literally everyone, but to hold certain jobs or attend certain events, yes.

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Deaths will move the needle.

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At this point I think the only things that will move the needle are vaccine requirements. Not for literally everyone, but to hold certain jobs or attend certain events, yes.

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Deaths will move the needle.

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Not if they hide the stats. Until they can't.

Our @SecDef is vaccinated

But he arrives in the Philippines wearing a mask AND a face shield

Embarrassing COVID theatre pic.twitter.com/y0UBYEfqTD

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) July 29, 2021

As for the president....

Pres. Biden in Allentown, Pennsylvania, after remarks on manufacturing ... pic.twitter.com/94yv6a2vt7

— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) July 28, 2021

As for the governor of California

Newsom Pulls Kids From Camp After Photos Emerge Of Them Maskless https://t.co/Mb5z5goWZo pic.twitter.com/bzS5bDEbVE

— The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) July 28, 2021

I'm surprised he ever came out of hiding after his panic attack during a national broadcast.

A new study shows the delta COVID-19 variant produced similar amounts of virus in vaccinated and unvaccinated people if they get infected

https://abc7news.com/health/cdc-mask-decision-followed-stunning-findings-from-cape-cod-outbreak/10918914/

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10 or so days ago there was 17 Covid hospitalizations in Contra Costa County. This morning, 39. Something up.

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Above post was 7/10. Today 83 in CCC hospitals.

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117 as of this morning.

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128 in CCC hospitals today.

Question: Could you ever get behind a vaccine mandate for everybody?
Ron Johnson: No, not unless there’s some incredibly deadly disease pic.twitter.com/dySLgROgJK

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 31, 2021