The Coronavirus Thread

[Seabass]

That makes a lot of sense, Brian. But I think such thinking is reinforced by a conservative ideology which obsesses over individual freedom, and distrusts any call to collective action for the common good. One immediately thinks of Thatcher's "there is no such thing as society"...

They only claim to value individual freedom, all while zealously working to impose their religious morality and doctrines and racial hierarchy on the rest of us.

[JimC]

Sure, there is some hypocrisy there, mainly in the religious right. The libertarian "wing" of the right has less tendency to impose narrow doctrines on others, though...

[laklak]

Doctrines? We don't need no stinking doctrines.

[Sean Hayden]

Dallas ISD to keep mask mandate in place despite Texas Supreme Court ruling

--finally, maybe this can be an issue that helps motivate us to refuse to be governed poorly by a minority of dickheads...

[pErvinalia]

But what if your population is a majority of dickheads?

[macdoc]

Progress one death at a time ....
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics ... an-vpx.cnn

[Brian Peacock]

Progress on what?

[pErvinalia]

Thinning the conservative herd..?

[Seabass]

Arkansas has one of the lowest COVID vaccination rates in the country, and the Delta variant is causing a surge of new cases in the state. We embedded at a hospital in Little Rock, where doctors say the threat of death isn’t enough to convince people to get vaccinated.

These Hospitalized COVID Patients Still Refuse to Get Vaccinated

[Seabass]

Rep. Greene’s Ghoulish Covid Message: ‘We’re Human, We Can’t Live Forever’


Representative Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.) incorrectly claimed that hospitals are not overwhelmed by Covid patients and downplayed the stark rise in cases nationwide by callously saying, “We’re human, we can’t live forever.”

The lawmaker made the comments during a Thursday interview on the right-wing network “Real America’s Voice.”

While claiming not to be anti-vax, Greene expressed more concern about the eventuality of the FDA officially approving the vaccines than she did for those suffering from the virus.

“Once the vaccines are approved by the FDA, we’re going to see the mandates for vaccines ramp up far more than they are right now,” Greene said. “And I fear they’ll become law in some cities and some states. Biden would love to make it the law of the land.”

“Again, I’m not anti-vax,” Greene stated. “I’m completely for people being allowed to make choices.”

Greene also continued to raise doubts about the rise in cases due to the delta variant, saying, “at least that’s what the media tells us every single day.” She then transitioned to a lie about hospitalizations.

“Yes, [hospital] waiting rooms get full,” she said. “But guess what, the waiting rooms are full of all kinds of things, not just Covid.”

The congresswoman then explained how “car accidents” and “other illnesses” like “cancer” are the reason for rising hospitalization rates, adding, “We get hurt sometimes.”

“So while the news tries to tell us the hospitals are slam-packed with Covid, that’s just not the case,” Greene lied. “Everybody needs to get back down to common sense and remember that, you know, we’re human, we can’t live forever, we’re going to catch all kinds of diseases and illnesses and other viruses, and we get hurt sometimes.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... r-1212208/

[aufbahrung]

Gotta die of something. That's my attitude to life, twice so since my double jab

[pErvinalia]

Yes, but you'd like that death to be as distant into the future as possible.

[Brian Peacock]

I died once. No big deal.

[Sean Hayden]

But what if your population is a majority of dickheads?

There are definitely more of us than them, even in Texas. That's why the Republicans are working to undermine elections.

[Sean Hayden]

She reminds of the preacher in Poltergeist. --don't google if you want to sleep well