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#39,902
clarksvol00 said:
And its not a problem?
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Not really. The real problem lies with how it’s being dealt with. Suspended freedoms, lockdowns, forced vaccinations, masks mandates etc. All imposed on the people for a virus with a 98-99% survival rate.

Ask your self a few questions. One, had the story of COVID never been broken, what would have been said? I asked this question to my best friend whom is a board certified infectious disease specialist with over 20 years experience. He said the medical community would have said what a terrible flu season we have had. When reporting on COVId, why is the fact that the vast majority of those whom have contracted it were asymptomatic or had light symptoms and never even had to go to the hospital? Instead, the news media has consistently used the exceptions to prove the rule. They have used, in statistical verbiage, the outliers instead of the regression line. But why? Also, why have throughout this whole thing have there been the double standards? Why the flip flop by people like Fauci? And why have respected scientists opinions all of a sudden are discredited because they differ from Faucis? Why were the fake images used by the media to portray bodies lying in the street from COVID? Why were ther lies about ICUs being overrun? Why have there been many doctors, nurses and pharmacists that have talked about how this virus has been used to manipulate the public? Why is this virus not acting like other natural viruses?
 
#39,903
#39,903
BigOrangeTrain said:
Not really. The real problem lies with how it’s being dealt with. Suspended freedoms, lockdowns, forced vaccinations, masks mandates etc. All imposed on the people for a virus with a 98-99% survival rate.

Ask your self a few questions. One, had the story of COVID never been broken, what would have been said? I asked this question to my best friend whom is a board certified infectious disease specialist with over 20 years experience. He said the medical community would have said what a terrible flu season we have had. When reporting on COVId, why is the fact that the vast majority of those whom have contracted it were asymptomatic or had light symptoms and never even had to go to the hospital? Instead, the news media has consistently used the exceptions to prove the rule. They have used, in statistical verbiage, the outliers instead of the regression line. But why? Also, why have throughout this whole thing have there been the double standards? Why the flip flop by people like Fauci? And why have respected scientists opinions all of a sudden are discredited because they differ from Faucis? Why were the fake images used by the media to portray bodies lying in the street from COVID? Why were ther lies about ICUs being overrun? Why have there been many doctors, nurses and pharmacists that have talked about how this virus has been used to manipulate the public? Why is this virus not acting like other natural viruses?
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TLDR. You're not VN's Faulkner.
 
#39,906
#39,906
BigOrangeTrain said:
COVID is a political tool that has been used to test how much control the government has over its citizens. The answer? Almost total.

COVID is a problem because the government has made it so.
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BigOrangeTrain said:
Your kids have a less than 1% change of dying from COVID. You have about a 1-2% chance. But yeah COVId really needed addressing.
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To paraphrase a frequent sentiment expressed in this thread ,,,, You actually believe this and that is sad..
 
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#39,907
BigOrangeTrain said:
It’s right in front of your face. Guess the saying is true. People rarely see what’s right in front of their face.
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I wish I could let the two otherwise healthy people I knew who died of COVID know that. Maybe they wouldn't have died.
 
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Covid is irrelevant to the current discussion, Biden hasn't implemented some magical cure or plan to prevent. That is complete nonsense from the Left other than the threat of firing for thousands. of employees.
 
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#39,911
clarksvol00 said:
Now you're Hemingway. Make up your mind.

By the way, you might remember I've already told you I won't seriously engage in a conversation with you because you falsely attribute positions/arguments to me.
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Gave you a like for Faulkner to Hemingway comment. That was gold. Carry on with your argument with BOT.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
Sad that I believe in statistics? Alrighty then.
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Your statistics include all age groups. Not all adults are at equal risk of dying, once they have contracted COVID. You have a tendency to oversimplify matters.... and your comment that COVID wasn't a problem until the government made it a problem ... was ignorant.
 
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Biden's safe-space CNN town hall attracts small audience, as poll numbers plummet
BY JOE CONCHA, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR

President Biden turned to CNN to perform a town hall on Thursday night, marking the second time the White House has chosen the network in the past three months in this kind of format.

And the ratings were horrific, even by Biden's standards.

According to early numbers from Nielsen Media Research, the Biden town hall from Baltimore, which was moderated by Anderson Cooper, delivered just 1.2 million viewers from 8 p.m. ET to 9:30 p.m. In the younger demographic (25 to 54-year-olds) that advertisers covet most, the commander in chief commanded a paltry 271,000 viewers.

For context in the cable news race, an average of 2.83 million viewers watched Fox News's Tucker Carlson (8 p.m.) and the first half of Sean Hannity (9 p.m.). That's more than 1.6 million more viewers. Meanwhile, MSNBC's Chris Hayes (8 p.m.) and Rachel Maddow (9 p.m.) attracted an average of 1.39 million viewers in taking second place.

For even more context, Biden drew 3.4 million viewers during his first town hall as president on CNN in February. Thursday night's audience, marking more than a 60 percent drop. For more context, the last town hall Donald Trump did with CNN occurred when he wasn't even the Republican nominee in March 2016, when the first-time candidate captured 3.26 million viewers.

The drop in interest in what the president has to say on important issues and policy can't be underscored enough. There's so much at stake, particularly as it pertains to Biden's massive Build Back Better plan, which would add at least $2 trillion in spending to an economy that is suffering the highest core inflation the country has seen in 30 years.

Here we have Biden in a free fall, with Quinnipiac's latest polling putting him at 28 percent approval among independents and 37 percent approval overall. In the RealClearPolitics average of polls, the president is down 10 points in just three months, with his standing currently at only 42.8 percent.

Biden's performance also likely didn't improve the public's perception of him, most notably during this exchange:

Cooper: "Do you have plans to visit the southern border?"

Biden: "I've been there before and I haven't - I mean, I know it well. I guess I should go down. But the whole point of it is I haven't had a whole hell of a lot of time to get down."

On top of a light daily schedule, Biden has spent 70 days of his presidency at home in Delaware. Could he have taken at least one day to visit overwhelmed border towns in Texas such as Del Rio or La Joya? Overall, the U.S. is on pace to eclipse 2.4 million migrants entering the country illegally this year, which is more than the population of Houston, America's fourth most populous city.

I can find no evidence that Biden has ever visited the U.S. southern border in his 50 years as a politician.

This town hall seemingly wasn't designed to be balanced in terms of questions from the invited attendees.

Of the 12 people who asked questions of the president, seven were referred to as Democrats, while only two were Republicans and three independents. Hardly a cross-section of Americans. Cooper also did not broach the most sensitive foreign policy topic with Biden: Afghanistan.

Biden has now done three town halls since taking office, all of them on CNN.

It's been 65 days since Biden participated in a sit-down interview. And he has yet to sit down with any reporters from the three most prominent print publications, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post. That's perhaps because it likely would entail follow-up questions and being pressed on key issues.

But if the president truly wants to sell his agenda to the public, he needs to go to more challenging places. Or at least to networks that command bigger audiences than CNN.

Meanwhile, Vice President Harris hasn't done a one-on-one with any major broadcast news entity since June.

The lack of confidence from the White House is telling. And all the friendly CNN town halls aren't going to change the perception that Team Biden-Harris thinks it can play it safe with the media, just as it did during the campaign.

But this isn't the campaign. They're in charge now.

And if this pattern continues for the next three years or so, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris may no longer be in charge of anything.

Biden's safe-space CNN town hall attracts small audience, as poll numbers plummet
 
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