misterID wrote:

The flu has never simultaneously overrun hospitals in every state, and we still don't know the long-lasting effects or the strains, because the flu wasn't created in a lab and didn't make a leap on the evolutionary chain. Our bodies are able to adjust to newer flu variants.

If you don't believe in it or you're anti vaxx or whatever, fine. I even agree in government overreach, but this goes more into being angry that other people don't agree with your stances. That's the issue I have with anti-vaxxers.

We don’t know it was created in a lab. If you think it was, shouldn’t you be demanding Fauci and those who funded it be held accountable?

The reality is 2020 and 2021 have had the same amount of COVID deaths. And we’ve had the vaccine available in the US widely available to those most vulnerable since January.

This is the new reality. This isn’t about a stance, it’s saying that if you’re going to join the chorus of doomsayers, you apply those concerns and considerations equally. How many people die from smoking cigarettes each year?  How many hospital beds are full of dying smokers across the nation? Yet we’ve yet to ban them, let alone mandate every person above the age of 2 take chantix.

misterID wrote:

Remember when I said I'd never get a booster?

Yeah, just got the booster

I'm gonna get mine when I go shopping next week. I can't decide which shot to get. I may just get another J&J...my body already knows that one. They recommend mixing but I'll probably play it safe.

Looks like Ukraine might be heating up. Biden announced that US troops are off the table. In other words... Putin got the green light. 

Did you guys see where New Zealand might ban cigarettes for young people?!?

Crazy.

It's always the media....the media has control over you...you are under control by media...you are incapable of real thought...that's the summary here...

Not this shit again....

slashsfro wrote:

I've been hestitant to wade myself into this debate, but I'll ask once: Why was there such a big deal on this Rittenhouse thing?  Is it just on racial lines/issues?

Or why should Americans outside of Wisconsin care about this?

The riots were pretty politically charged already. The protests were widely supported, but there was huge friction about the riots and it was split down political lines: progressives tried to defend them, conservatives blasted them, while the majority of average Americans who supported the protests were against the rioting. It depended on The media you consumed.

The fact this kid was white, considered a trump supporter, was a fire bomb in an already combustible situation. A lot of it falls on the media for how it was portrayed. It really shouldn't have been a national story, and no one should have gotten so invested/obsessed/consumed in hating/supporting the kid.

It's hysterical he ended up being a BLM supporter.