Some Covid-19 thoughts
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Quote:I get the feeling that another Republican President, Dwight Eisenhower, was not very careful about protecting American lives from predictable medical catastrophes:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Trump and his admin clearly have no love or respect for their own base, and surely they hate anyone who votes for Biden - so who's left? Just the immediate Trump loyalists in his immediate circle.
Something to consider when thinking of their actions or lack of actions. "Let them get infected."
Fallout from the Nevada nuclear testing could have led to between 340,000 and 460,000 premature deaths, mostly Americans and mainly through cancer.
If that death toll seems unreal, consider the scale of the radiation involved. Using a figure of 81 million Curies for the radioactive material released at Chernobyl as a baseline, one estimate held that the Nevada-based nuclear testing emitted 12 billion Curies into the atmosphere between 1951 and 1963. That’s the equivalent of nearly 150 Chernobyl disasters—or one a month for more than a decade.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/460000-premature-deaths-horror-
was-nuclear-weapons-testing-69512
I hope good old President Eisenhower believed it was a fair tradeoff between intimidating Russia with a display of above ground bomb tests and killing 460,000 Americans with that intimidation.
Color footage of soldiers being exposed to high levels of radiation
Color footage of atomic bomb tests with active duty military personnel at Camp Desert Rock, Nevada Test Site, Nevada. Shows soldiers in foxholes as nuclear detonation occurs nearby; light and shockwaves; blowing dust; soldiers climbing out of foxholes and running towards mushroom cloud. Some of this footage is familiar by virtue of having been seen in the film Atomic Cafe. Many soldiers who were present were exposed to high levels of radiation.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Criminals.
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Really second, really? Atomic bomb in this thread.
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Republican Senator Who Voted for Trump's $1.5 Trillion Tax Cut for the Rich Blocks $1,200 Stimulus Checks
"Millions are falling into poverty, and Ron Johnson—who loves tax cuts for the rich—is blocking help."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/18/republican-senator-who-vo
ted-trumps-15-trillion-tax-cut-rich-blocks-1200-stimulus
Under fascism, the cruelty is the point.
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Quote:Killing off Americans is something callus Republican Presidents are known to do even though they won't admit to doing it. It is kind of shocking that I have to explain this to you, but Eisenhower let a half million Americans die from radiation because to admit that he was deliberately harming Americans would thwart Eisenhower's military plans. Another Republican President, Ronald Reagan, pulled the same stunt with HIV/AIDS that Trump is pulling with Covid-19. As of 2018, about 700,000 people have died of HIV/AIDS in the U.S., which is about where the Covid-19 total will end.
Originally posted by THG:
Really second, really? Atomic bomb in this thread.
The Reagan administration's unbelievable response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic
https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9828348/ronald-reagan-hiv-aids
Covid-19 won't be the last disease discovered and Trump won't be the last President who doesn't try hard to prevent deaths.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Why is Moscow Mitch getting the vaccine, when he spent a year denying COVID was a problem?
https://www.axios.com/pelosi-covid-vaccine-af8dcbfc-846c-4e17-bc22-71d
8a339d58f.html?te=1&nl=coronavirus-briefing&emc=edit_cb_20201218
The trumptards have turned on all Republicans who acknowledge the undeniable fact that Trump lost in a landslide.
They call him a RINO, now. They want to kill him just as badly as they want to kill me.
People outside their fantasy bubble are enemies to be killed. People who live in reality are the problem in Trumpworld.
Right, 6ix?
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As cases in the US exceed 17 million, Fox News -- with Tucker Carlson being one of the chief carnival barkers on this one -- is fanning the flames of skepticism around the Covid-19 vaccine.
Carlson openly encouraged people to be suspicious of what he described as the "glitzy" vaccine rollout on Thursday and went on to say, "So, how are the rest of us supposed to respond to a marketing campaign like this? Well, nervously. Even if you're strongly supportive of vaccines, and we are, even if you recognize how many millions of lives have been saved over the past 50 years by vaccines, and we do, it all seems a bit much. It feels false, because it is. It's too slick."
After Tucker Carlson's rant Thursday night on why Americans should be wary of a vaccine that has proven to be over 90% effective against a virus that has killed more than 310,000 Americans, he should have been plastered on the front page of every newspaper in the country. The science denial, vaccine skepticism and falsehoods that are spewed on Fox News pose a clear and present danger to the health of many Americans. This dangerous rhetoric should be framed as such.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/18/opinions/tucker-carlson-vaccine-rant-sh
ould-be-called-out-news-lockhart/index.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Deaths
316,339___+2,542
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Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro bizarrely suggests COVID-19 vaccines could turn people into crocodiles or bearded ladies
https://www.businessinsider.com/bolsonaro-claims-covid-19-vaccines-cou
ld-turn-people-into-crocodiles-2020-12?utm_source=reddit.com
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro criticized the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Thursday.
He suggested that the vaccine could result in strange side-effects, such as women growing beards and people turning into crocodiles, according to AFP.
Bolsonaro has revealed that he does not intend to be vaccinated.
Despite the president's claim that Brazil is at the "tail end" of the pandemic, the country is currently experiencing a huge surge in new COVID-19 cases.
Brazil has the second-highest coronavirus death toll in the world.
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All fascists all over the world are uniformly stupid as fuck.
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