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Modern Mores

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

In the olden days, a king who seized power wrongfully was a “usurper” and knowing that everyone hated him for stealing the throne, the usurper would generally kill as many of his enemies as he could, as quickly as he could, to cement his grip on power. Those he couldn’t kill directly, he’d threaten to intimidate.  

My, how times have changed

Joe Doakes

Democrats learned a lot from those kings. And, for that matter, peasants.


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56 responses to “Modern Mores”

  1. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    MP, you sitting down? Pfizer and Moderna scrapped and voided their control groups. Look it up. Science™!

  2. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    I would be willing to listen to a person who said, “I based my regulation on the best information available but the following new information changed the situation and therefore I have changed the regulation. . . . ”

    The problem with the Progressive Response to the Covid Pandemic is we never get the new information, only the new regulation. It’s an endless game of “Simon Says” and I was bored with that by third grade.

  3. Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenesis

    There is no “information, Joe Doakes.” The CDC’s masking recommendation is based on fairy dust and moon beams:

    https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm?s_cid=mm7031e2_w
    This is the provincetown breakout.
    The in-depth information from the CDC leaves out the most important information, which is that this super spreader event among the vaccinated has a name: “bear week.” It is a gay festival where gay men get together to have sex with other gay men.

    The “Discussion” section of the paper sez:
    The findings in this report are subject to at least four limitations. First, data from this report are insufficient to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, including the Delta variant, during this outbreak. As population-level vaccination coverage increases, vaccinated persons are likely to represent a larger proportion of COVID-19 cases. Second, asymptomatic breakthrough infections might be underrepresented because of detection bias. Third, demographics of cases likely reflect those of attendees at the public gatherings, as events were marketed to adult male participants; further study is underway to identify other population characteristics among cases, such as additional demographic characteristics and underlying health conditions including immunocompromising conditions.*** MA DPH, CDC, and affected jurisdictions are collaborating in this response; MA DPH is conducting additional case investigations, obtaining samples for genomic sequencing, and linking case information with laboratory data and vaccination history. Finally, Ct values obtained with SARS-CoV-2 qualitative RT-PCR diagnostic tests might provide a crude correlation to the amount of virus present in a sample and can also be affected by factors other than viral load.††† Although the assay used in this investigation was not validated to provide quantitative results, there was no significant difference between the Ct values of samples collected from breakthrough cases and the other cases. This might mean that the viral load of vaccinated and unvaccinated persons infected with SARS-CoV-2 is also similar. However, microbiological studies are required to confirm these findings.

  4. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Unvaccinated adults put all children under 12 at risk. The 30% of unvaccinated is allowing the virus to mutate and potentially become more vaccine resistant. They’ve walked us backwards into overwhelmed healthcare systems. And increased the overall risk for compromised kids who can’t get vaccinated yet.

  5. Pig Bodine Avatar
    Pig Bodine

    poor clueless Emery mindlessly chanting the daily talking points.
    Since the Wuhan flu started more children have died from falls, or gunshots, or drowning, or car accidents, or drug overdoses, take your pick, than the 349 children under the age of 18 who died of the Wuhan flu. That’s 349 deaths out of 633,799. For people under the age of 50 the Wuhan flu survival rate is over 99%. What a fool!

  6. kinlaw Avatar
    kinlaw

    Poor lefties; the China virus just isn’t killing enough people to satisfy them.

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