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Originally posted by bigdeal:


Mental illness is absolutely rampant in this country right now

My wife listens to this Christian musician and worship pastor's podcast each week and he stated it perfectly:

"There are a lot of broken people out there right now, but the problem is they think YOU and I are the insane ones for wanting to take off the masks and go back to living our lives as before."

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Weekly Costco shopping trip update. Last week even though they had changed the mask requirements, every single person had a mask on. I live in liberal country, 80% blue. They won't leave the mask behind, even though I know they are all vaxxed. This week we dropped to 95/96% masked. The tide is very slowly turning.

Perfect timing Skins, I was just considering doing a report of my latest Kroger trip. Last week 100% masked. This week, I'm going to say 90~95% masked. My mask just slipped off my face as soon as I entered the store and counted 2 naked faces. I'm in a very liberal city and I'd bet most of the maskers have had the shot.

I agree the tide is turning. The powermongers got what they were looking for, a demonstration of public mass compliance. After this I think even some of the sheeple will balk at being told that It's time to diaper up again. That's my hope anyway.

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Originally posted by Dan the man:
My mask just slipped off my face as soon as I entered the store and counted 2 naked faces.

Your mistake is even having it on at all. Everyone's default position should be bare faced. Just don't wear it. Let them ask you to wear it if they want.

Go about your life as if this charade is over completely as best you can.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by Dan the man:
My mask just slipped off my face as soon as I entered the store and counted 2 naked faces.

Your mistake is even having it on at all. Everyone's default position should be bare faced. Just don't wear it. Let them ask you to wear it if they want.

I agree with your sentiment but I get by where I'm at by being a grey man. I'm focused on career and retirement right now. Once I retire... I'll have zero fucks left.

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Go about your life as if this charade is over completely as best you can.[/QUOTE]

That I can do!

Wow, this has to be one of the most absurd things I've read in quite some time. This is pure, grade-A, gaslighting horseshit. The balls on these people to really think that intelligent people will actually buy this crap has reached unbelievable levels. This is beyond laughable.

I'm sure all the people out of work or those in California or Pennsylvania or New Jersey who lost their businesses are well comforted by this article that says the "data" according to GDP numbers indicate places like Florida or Texas actually did worse than places like California. Sure. These people, like the dickhead who wrote this article, are sick.

'Lockdown' states like California did better economically than 'looser' states like Florida, new COVID data shows

Tue, June 8, 2021, 11:30 AM·7 min read

Like seemingly everything else in America, the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked its fair share of bitter, polarizing debates: over masks, over distancing, over vaccines.

Lockdowns are no exception. One assumption many Americans seem to make is that the more a government limits gatherings, mandates masks, restricts business activity and advises residents to stay at home, the more economic damage it will do.

Among the loudest of these voices is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who raised his national profile by allowing bars and restaurants to operate at full indoor capacity during America’s horrific holiday surge, then effectively banned mask mandates once Florida started to recover — all in the name of supporting business.


“She’s a lockdown lobbyist,” DeSantis recently said in reference to Democrat Nikki Fried, one of his 2022 gubernatorial opponents. Speaking at a New Smyrna Beach restaurant, DeSantis said Fried “would have had this business shuttered for the whole year. They would be out of business if Fried were governor.”

Yet for much of the past year, some experts have quietly advanced a counterargument: that economic activity is mainly affected by the rising and falling severity of the pandemic itself — not the relative strictness of the measures implemented to mitigate it. In fact, these experts argued, nonpharmaceutical interventions, or NPIs — a set of 20 government responses such as business closures, mask mandates and stay-at-home advisories that Oxford University rates according to stringency — can have an economic upside. The more the virus seems to be under control, the more eager people will be to participate in the economy.

Last week, this argument got a boost with the publication of a new report by economists at the University of California, Los Angeles. According to the latest quarterly UCLA Anderson Forecast, not only did big states with more stringent COVID measures end 2020 with fewer infections per capita, they also tended to post better economic growth numbers last year than states with fewer restrictions.

In other words, California’s economy actually fared better than Florida’s.

Yahoo News spoke with economist Jerry Nickelsburg, the director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, to find out more.


Yahoo News: Is it now fair to say that so-called lockdown states performed better economically than so-called looser states during the 2020 pandemic?

Jerry Nickelsburg: That is correct. We generally view economic performance through the lens of gross domestic product. On average, GDP declined in 2020, and it declined everywhere. But those declines were smaller in states with more stringent nonpharmaceutical interventions than states with less stringent NPIs.

That’s the opposite of the conventional wisdom. In Florida, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is telling voters, in effect, “I saved the economy by opening bars and banning masks.” What made you suspect that the prevailing narrative — this idea that there’s a trade-off between public health and the health of the economy — might be wrong?

It was something that we started to see in Scandinavia. It's something we saw in the 1918-19 influenza pandemic as well. It seemed to be more than just a fluke.

Story continues


https://news.yahoo.com/lockdow...shows-153025163.html

Loudoun SitRep June 2021

Me - Free breathing as I have been since March 2020

Friday: Purcellville Browning Equipment: <5% Masked
Saturday: Leesburg Home Depot about 80% masked; Giant about 90% masked
Tuesday: Purcellville Southern States about 30% masked

Conclusion: I'll keep to my normal routine.

He's so fucking stupid. Agree.

How about the data be normalized? When Si Valley can largely work from home w/o skipping a beat, it's different. When you have rules for thee (Hollywood and supporting businesses) different from me (local restaurant), the numbers get skewed. When you have large scale farms (and other industries favorable to the left) that are deemed critical businesses that aren't subject to lockdowns, you get skewed numbers.

Again, the left just proving how superficial their understanding of the world is. The lockdown in CA wasn't really a lockdown; only smaller biz's got hurt. The left and their favored businesses continued to roam free albeit w/ masks.

BTW, I haven't worn a mask in 2 weeks. Anywhere. And some people at the market take off their masks once they see me not wear one.

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Wow, this has to be one of the most absurd things I've read in quite some time. This is pure, grade-A, gaslighting horseshit.

We funded it too. While their businesses and industry collapsed, they paid more out in UI and Fed sweeteners. So yes, the costal elites were able to telecommute or get 25-50% boost in income due to enhanced UI payments. It's possible that they supposedly 'faired better' but the states like FL saved more small businesses. Let's see the numbers of small businesses lost and percentage of people on UI, I'll bet you FL wins that metric.

No worries - we will soon move past COVID and onto Aliens and some interstellar disease. The spin is getting ramped up right now.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
It's possible that they supposedly 'faired better' but the states like FL saved more small businesses. Let's see the numbers of small businesses lost and percentage of people on UI, I'll bet you FL wins that metric.

Sorry, I've got degrees in Accounting and Finance, and minors in Economics and Computer Science, and worked for many years as a Senior Analyst plowing through mountains of data. Anyone with decent analytical skills and a set of actual ethics would come to a completely different outcome than the morons who lied their way through this BS. This piece was largely an attack on conservatives and conservatism in general but more specifically DeSantis in specific. The Left is desperate to destroy DeSantis before the next election cycle rolls around, and if they can crap on conservatism in the process all the better.

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Originally posted by Graniteguy:
some interstellar disease

Aha!! That's why Bezos is going to space! He's gonna go fetch it!

"Joints for Jabs"??

Washington State to Offer Free Joints Upon COVID Vaccination

Washington state announced that the Liquor and Cannabis Board will provide a marijuana joint to each adult that receives the COVID-19 vaccine in an effort to increase statewide vaccinations.

The board said Monday that the "Joint for Jabs" promotion would run from June 7 until June 12.

Customers ages 21 and up will have the opportunity to claim a pre-rolled joint at a participating cannabis location upon receiving their first or second dose at a vaccine clinic. Only joints will be able to be claimed as edibles and other products containing marijuana are not included in the promotion.

The board has also previously offered alcoholic products as an incentive to receive the vaccine.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...vaccination-n2590677

What a pile of complete garbage (the author/article, not governor). I got angry just reading this article. I surprised he actually had the balls to cut off the UI.

Gov. Hogan’s premature end to federal unemployment benefits in Maryland must be reversed

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Originally posted by chellim1:
"Joints for Jabs"??

Washington State to Offer Free Joints Upon COVID Vaccination

Next they'll be offering cigarettes. And why not? It's only a virus that affects the respiratory system.

When will these government officials start offering sexual favors I wonder?

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When will these government officials start offering sexual favors I wonder?

Ask Kamala...

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Originally posted by chellim1:

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When will these government officials start offering sexual favors I wonder?

Ask Kamala...

Everybody has to be good at something, and her?
Well....

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Washington State to Offer Free Joints Upon COVID Vaccination

And the slide towards a lack of morality picks up more speed. Offering mind altering substances (I’ll refrain from calling weed drugs to keep from offending out more open minded members). What next? Free heroin jabs (jabs for jabs), free psychedelics (trips for sticks).

They are DESPERATE to get this poison into everyone; the big question of course is WHY when we are at herd immunity despite a significant proportion saying “no” (almost 60%).

Watch: Fauci Pal Daszak Admits "Chinese Colleagues" Developing "Killer" Coronaviruses

https://www.zerohedge.com/covi...killer-coronaviruses



EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak – who collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on research funded by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease – appears to boast about the manipulation of “killer” SARS-like coronaviruses carried out by his “colleagues in China” in a clip unearthed by The National Pulse.

Daszak made the admission at a 2016 forum discussing “emerging infectious diseases and the next pandemic,” which appears to be at odds with Fauci’s repeated denial of funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

While describing how his organization sequences deadly viruses, Daszak describes the process of “insert[ing] spike proteins” into viruses to see if they can “bind to human cells” as being carried out by his “colleagues in China”:

“Then when you get a sequence of a virus, and it looks like a relative of a known nasty pathogen, just like we did with SARS. We found other coronaviruses in bats, a whole host of them, some of them looked very similar to SARS. So we sequenced the spike protein: the protein that attaches to cells. Then we…

Well I didn’t do this work, but my colleagues in China did the work. You create pseudo particles, you insert the spike proteins from those viruses, see if they bind to human cells. At each step of this you move closer and closer to this virus could really become pathogenic in people.

“You end up with a small number of viruses that really do look like killers,” he adds.
The comments follow growing evidence that Fauci’s NIAID has deep financial and personnel ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology – and that Daszak’s EcoHealth alliance was one of the primary proxies funneling the money to the Chinese Communist Party lab.

Over a dozen research papers carried out under a $3.7 million National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) grant list the Wuhan Lab’s Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Director Shi Zhengli as a co-author alongside Daszak. Shi has included these Fauci-backed grants on her resume.

The Wuhan lab has also listed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as one of its “partners,” secretly erasing the mention in March 2021.

Did I miss it? I took a peek at CNN just for curiosity and did not see any mention of the leaked emails, or anything related to the falsehoods promoted by Fauci et al over the year plus.

So, despite Fauci being brought before congressional panels and what not over this, not a peep from MSM? Wow....

Bongino said (more or less) that the MSM is complicit in the deaths of many covid victims because of their narrative. They are in the CYA mode.