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the vaccine doesn't work on the current variant?

cool story about the minimum wage chief

I totally agree, it's not going to be pretty.

well, it does qualify as a thing so yeah it is proof that Dems are in disarray! I saw a Maggie Habs tweet yesterday where she said that "people are saying" that Trump is mad at Desantis right now b/c Desantis won't commit to NOT Running in 2024.

Definitely possible, I think it might also not be particularly measurable - if someone gets the virus but doesn't become symptomatic (or is symptomatic for less time) then they'd be less contagious but we don't know a) how may asymptomatic folks are out there and b) whether they're asymptomatic b/c of the vaccine or the normal behavior of the virus.

Trump attacking Desantis.... Trump is running. Ugh

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I learned about the vaccines through work b/c I work in medical research. IT was December 2020 and they presented all 5 of the vaccines, which include Astra Zeneca and Sputnik in addition to the three we love currently. One measure of efficacy that WAS NOT reported in the research was "contracted" The metrics were hospitalization and death. I wrote about it on the old forum in December 2020. The N was 90k across all 5 vaccines at that time and the rates were 100%. Vaccines don't stop transmission of virus. It stops illness from the virus. Polio vaccine doesn't stop polio virus. It stops poliomyelitis.

Whenever I think of whether Trump is in-line with America, I think if his Helsinki presser w/ Putin. He distinctly didn't choose America there.

prolly one of those ten-flushers he used to talk about all the time many people are saying it was a perfect BM

Can't think of any good things he did in office.

that interview with slump was super boring and I regret listening to it. Even the storm off was boring.

I think the virus is a pretty rough situation but otherwise Biden has done a pretty good job. I'm not sure how much approval rating reflects how good of a job they're doing now - it reflects a lot of different things including his performance, but not limited to his performance. Suggesting such would assume an unbiased electorate evaluating on merits and frankly it's obvious that doesn't happen.

So that's going to leave 29 million Americans and the 300 million illegal immigrants that came across the Brandon border. I wonder if our local "team player" thinks Mr. Pillow is for or against America? I bet he's for America but against Americans!

I think it's interesting that if Tapper's show staffer does something, then that means Tapper did it. Of course, the part that's missing here, super conveniently, is that Hannity would also be responsible for what his show staffer does in this scenario..... I mean, if you're actually interested in comparing apples to apples, which is debatable. My bet is that comparison won't go well for those that chose to come here and defend Hannity for some reason.

here we go with yet another hypothetical about MSNBC. Same as it ever was. Might I recommend not "let's saying" and actually discuss something real?

I don't think either of our envisioning is relevant. When you tried to compare Tapper to Hannity, you presented texts from not Tapper. It's really that straight forward.

kidna weird that we're talking about Tapper then in attempt to strengthen your points about Tapper, you discuss someone who isn't Tapper. You're right I guess, Hannity texting Meadows is the same as a a not show host texting not the Chief of Staff to the president. The diferences just melt away when you don't consider them

LOL @ the notion that Tapper is biased towards Democrats

thanks archie said once about kids and then once not about kids so I didn't know it seems like maybe she just messed up her stats

A couple weeks back or so I mentioned the wingers all talking about FBI Agent Ray Epps inciting the riot. I'm sure you all are shocked to hear that the wingers were totally wrong. This thread is worthwhile.

The PBS News hour just told me that today 146k people were hospitalized with covid which is a record. Is this in line with what Sotomayor said?