09-01-2021, 04:51 AM
(09-01-2021, 01:15 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(08-31-2021, 02:21 PM)David Horn Wrote: No, the message that the government can't be trusted with their health came to the Black community through direct experience. How did the message that vaccines are bad come to the GOP faithful? And why would you go through COVID at all, if the alternative was two jabs and a few weeks? At the moment, GOPpers are the primary source of raging infection in places like Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Arizona, Missouri, and South Dakota.
Now to the mythical invasion of COVID from <insert the nation or region of choice>. Yes, the virus did arrive from elsewhere: the UK (both Alpha and Delta). The messengers were not illegals, but business travelers -- first time under Trump certainly and the second time under Trump most likely. Perhaps we should seal the borders and let no one in? Oh yeah, Trump was going to do that and didn't. Who did do it: the Aussies and Kiwis.
How many vaccinated people were unknowingly infected by the Delta Variant and infected others? I know there was a bunch of vaccinated Democrats who fled Texas who were infected and infected others not to long ago. The vaccine isn't/wasn't a cure for COVID. You do understand that right, I'm not opposed to the vaccine or opposed to the idea of people getting vaccinated. However, I don't view it as necessary for everyone at this point.
The vaccine is more reliable than anything else other than complete isolation.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.