• Welcome to OGBoards 10.0, keep in mind that we will be making LOTS of changes to smooth out the experience here and make it as close as possible functionally to the old software, but feel free to drop suggestions or requests in the Tech Support subforum!

Covid-19 - Treatments & Vaccines

Colonel Angus said:
Not familiar with the comment from Orlando city officials - Let me first check out Josh Marshall's talking points memo or Joy Reid's twitter feed and get back to you on that.



No idea - But it wouldn't be the first time (nor will it be the last) the left attempted to smear DeSantis with a bullshit claim.

Remind me again a week or so ago who posted the *debunked* dox attempt on his kids' private school? Can you refresh my memory on that?
Click to expand...

Lolz. It's not from Joy Reid's twitter feed, it's from the local Fox TV station and many different news sources (WaPo, NPR, CNN, The Hill, Orlando Sentinel, etc.) have run articles on it. So besides your usual trolling and snark you have nothing to say. As usual.

And if we're going with rejecting posters who post inaccurate information then you shouldn't be posting here at all Angus, as you're the King of it. But god forbid you were no longer able to amuse yourself with your drive-by trolls of the dreaded Tunnels Left, eh?
 
Last edited:
Rep. Chris Johansen, a Monticello Republican who reportedly contracted COVID-19 in mid-July and lost his wife to the virus, attended an anti-mandate rally in Augusta on Tuesday.

Johansen, who had been outspoken against pandemic restrictions and mask mandates, joined a rally against Maine’s new vaccine mandate for health care workers where Rep. Heidi Sampson, R-Alfred, compared Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and her sister to Nazi doctors who performed experiments on Jews during the Holocaust, The Daily Beast reported on Friday.

Neither Johansen, nor his late wife Cindy Johansen, had received a coronavirus vaccine, according to Facebook posts made in mid-July
Click to expand...

https://bangordailynews.com/2021/08...ost-wife-to-covid-attends-anti-mandate-rally/
 
BacktoBack said:
When you're dealing with people this dense- not sure how we move past this thing.
Click to expand...

The only way to do it get rid of voter restrictions, gerrymandering, the electoral college, and other systemic factors that give the nut jobs an outsized say in governance.
 
Washington Post article about how many anti-vaxxers in Texas feel like they're under siege because one of their leaders, TX GOP official H. Scott Apley, died from covid at age 45 after vigorously opposing and ridiculing people (including doctors) for supporting vaccine and masking mandates. According to Apley's friends, relatives, and GOP associates, people have said such mean things about him on social media since he died, and that's not "productive" as a TX GOP leader says, and people don't like being "shouted into a different opinion" and it's making anti-vaxxers "circle the wagons" in Texas, and so on.

Meanwhile, the article notes that the Galveston GOP Facebook page posted a "medical-evidence-free" claim from a right-wing website about the covid vaccine killing someone (the Galveston GOP Chairman said the post doesn't represent the local party), and local GOP officials claimed that it's not their "words that are killing people at all" and the Galveston GOP Chairman "pointed to a Kaiser Family Foundation polling that shows vaccination rates varying by age, race and education, not just party. Among more than a dozen demographic groups broken out, however, Republicans had the lowest levels of immunization."

The article closes with a GOP city councilman in Manvel, TX who knew Apley and is trying to decide if he and his wife should get the covid vaccine. Even though he admits that Apley's death "challenged" his thinking, they're still uncertain, and they "are praying at the end of every day...waiting to get the vaccine until they have some answer from God."

So Apley and others of his ilk ridiculed people who supported vaccination and masking mandates, he dies from covid, and people who agree with him and knew him are now complaining that others are hurting their feelings and being so mean and harsh and they shouldn't be using Apley's death as a warning that people should get vaccinated. And they're waiting "for some answer from God" as to whether to get the vaccine. No wonder we're in the shape we're in.

Link https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-officials-covid-19-death-131046609.html
 
Last edited:
Perhaps the vaccine is the answer from God?

This reminds me of the story of the guy waiting rescue who refused help from a neighbor, the fire department, and the rescue squad because he was waiting for God to save him. Guy died wondering why God didn't save him. God said he sent the neighbor, the fire department, and the rescue squad.
 
And yet another right-wing, covid-denying, vaccine skepticism preaching radio talk show host has passed from covid. Phil Valentine, based in Nashville, died today after battling covid for weeks in the hospital. At least he did publicly admit before he passed that he was wrong about taking covid vaccines and urged his fans to get vaccinated. His brother Mark said on July 25 "I know if he were able to tell you this, he would tell you, 'Go get vaccinated. Quit worrying about the politics. Quit worrying about all the conspiracy theories...He regrets not being more adamant about getting the vaccine. Look at the dadgum data." He was 61.

 
Can’t remember if I read it here or elsewhere, but the difference in these small time radio hosts and politicians dying vs your Hannitys and DeSantis is that the latter know it’s a grift and got their vaccines.
 
By the way, he's still opposed to masking and vaccination mandates even though he and his wife now have covid. In a tweet he encouraged people to "talk with their doctor" about the different vaccines and therapies available, but said that he still supports everyone's "freedom" to make their own "health-related" decisions.

 
deactherunner said:
What do you think that exchange proves?
Click to expand...

Perhaps if the water situation in Orlando was as dire and serious as many in the media and Tunnels posters purport it to be, the Volcano Bay waterpark at Universal or Aquatica at Sea World wouldn't still be open???
 
 
Colonel Angus said:
Perhaps if the water situation in Orlando was as dire and serious as many in the media and Tunnels posters purport it to be, the Volcano Bay waterpark at Universal or Aquatica at Sea World wouldn't still be open???
Click to expand...

GOTCHA
 
Colonel Angus said:

That chart is worthless. It’s an apples to oranges comparison. Every year except for last year kids were in school without masks. Last year most kids were not in school and those that were wore masks. If kids had been in school and unmasked last year, the numbers would have been dramatically higher. People should be ashamed to push such disingenuous data on social media.

We already know that Covid spreads like wildfire in unmasked schools based on the first week of school this year and tens of thousands of kids out already.
 
Colonel Angus said:
Perhaps if the water situation in Orlando was as dire and serious as many in the media and Tunnels posters purport it to be, the Volcano Bay waterpark at Universal or Aquatica at Sea World wouldn't still be open???
Click to expand...

Why would I assume Disney World would do a socially responsible thing if not mandated? If it's not technically in Orlando, the mayor's order would not apply to them. My point was that rich assholes can get exemptions at the expense of less rich people.
 
Angus really brings the stupid. Another dumbass doing his research.
I can’t believe we’ve come back to trying to compare Covid to the flu.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top