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The Worldwide C0VlD-19 Coronavirus Pandemic Discussion Thread...

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Remember citizens, keep your protests to less than 100 people or you will be instantly infected and die from Corona Virus!!!

Canada has erupted in protests as well, thank goodness we got the cure to Corona as well! Our mighty king Sir Justin T. Esquire has even joined in. My hero!!!!

Oh, and I hope hope hope hope so hard that this whole "defund the police" movement actually works!! It is spreading big time in Canada. A native woman had a "wellness check" called on her by her boyfriend. How did the police respond? By showing up and shooting her to death. Yup, they fixed her real good, no more wellness issues anymore. It is insane that the militarization of the police, and the growth of their "us vs them" attitude has been allowed to go on for so long. Maybe the cure for Covid19 will actually be worth the disease we had before. Could this put us on a better path than we were on before? Are people finally going to be sick of politicians running the lives of those they have no actual interest or ties to?
 

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@JamesQB8 LOL this is brilliant. Another gold video by AwakenWithJP. @Kak you'll love it.
 
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New Zealand is set to lift almost all its coronavirus restrictions within hours as it reports there are no active cases in the country.

It will move to level one, the lowest of its four-tier alert system, at midnight local time (12:00 GMT).

Under this, social distancing will no longer be required and there will be no limits on public gatherings, but borders will remain closed

Sounds like paradise but obviously there's a dark side of this:

Auckland-based lorry driver Patrick Weston told the BBC: "Everyone is so happy we're finally through this, but we're still nervous.

"I think the main thing people are worried about is the economy - so many people out of work, so many people looking for work at the same time.

"[On Tuesday] all restrictions are lifted and we can carry on as normal. Sporting events, music events can all take place with no restriction of numbers. We're still being encouraged to social distance of course, so we hope people will be sensible.

"We're happy, but nervous about the future."

As critical as I am about lockdowns, I applaud New Zealand which, in just a matter of three and a half months, is done with all this BS. I sure would love to be a New Zealand citizen now and see life go back to normal, without the ****** social distancing tapes, mandatory masks, restrictions on everything, etc.

They had a very strict lockdown but at least it worked. Obviously they have a huge geographic advantage but still. They ruined their economy but so did every country around the world without much to show for it (including Sweden and their lax approach which in the end didn't save neither economy nor lives).

If the world really can't do without lockdowns, then at least it would sure be nice they worked so well that life could go back to normal.

I'm in Barbados with just 4 active cases left and no new cases in over two weeks but for some reason I doubt they lift all restrictions once there's 0 cases.
 

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If the world really can't do without lockdowns, then at least it would sure be nice they worked so well that life could go back to normal.

What you see coming in all its glory is a new global method of "Governance".
Forget how things used to be. Get used to the new and adapt.

Note: Do you think those living in the "Victorian age" would have coped with the culture nowadays. (Those that could, would survive and prosper).

There's a great "divide and conquer" strategy in play, (IMO). And if you're able to "see" what's going on...
Who knows?
 
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During the Influenza wave 2017/2018 1.5 million people died and nobody noticed. Now after 6 months of covid19 we are at 400k and the world seems to be freaking out
 

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During the Influenza wave 2017/2018 1.5 million people died and nobody noticed. Now after 6 months of covid19 we are at 400k and the world seems to be freaking out

It must NOT be related to WHO and big media working together to make billions with a vaccine ("7 billion units sold" at 10$ each = 70B$ ).
Our brave experts would never use fear for profit.
 

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Canada just purchased 37 million syringes (One for every person living in the country. F*ck off, I didn't ask for one). At what cost? Who knows, but I can't see them getting a good deal on anything.

Good to know that Canada is gearing up for the vaccination of every single citizen (/s). Don't get me wrong, I am not anti vax, but pushing a vaccine that gets rushed through production and creation on EVERY single person is kind of scary. What if there is an issue? Seriously, what if there is an issue with it and every person in the country has taken it? Extrapolate this to the whole world, since that is what is happening everywhere.

No thanks, I will pass.
 
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Canada just purchased 37 million syringes (One for every person living in the country. F*ck off, I didn't ask for one). At what cost? Who knows, but I can't see them getting a good deal on anything.
They paid 10-20x more than the average cost of a syringe. Guaranteed.

No thanks, I will pass.
They might kneel on your neck if you pass.
 

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Another huge update on Facts about C0VlD-19.

Most interesting updates (hard to choose the best ones so I might have posted too much lol):

Stanford professor John Ioannidis published an overview of C0VlD-19 antibody studies. According to his analysis, the lethality of Covid19 (IFR) is below 0.16% in most countries and regions. Ioannidis found an upper limit of 0.40% for three hotspots.


In its latest report, the US health authority CDC reduced the Covid19 lethality (IFR) to 0.26% (best estimate). Even this value may still be seen as an upper limit, since the CDC conservatively assumes 35% asymptomatic cases, while most studies indicate 50 to 80% asymptomatic cases.

Numerous studies have now shown that children hardly get Covid19 and do not or hardly transmit the virus, which was already known from the 2003 SARS outbreak. There was therefore no medical reason for the closure of schools at any time.


Accordingly, all those countries that reopened their schools in May saw no increase in cases of infection. Countries like Sweden, which never closed their primary schools anyway, had no problems with this either.

Regardless of the comparatively low lethality of Covid19 in the general population (see above), there is still no scientific evidence for the effectiveness of masks in healthy and asymptomatic people in everyday life.


A cross-country study by the University of East Anglia came to the conclusion that a mask requirement was of no benefit and could even increase the risk of infection.


Two US professors and experts in respiratory and infection protection from the University of Illinois explain in an essay that respiratory masks have no effect in everyday life, neither as self-protection nor to protect third parties (so-called source control). The widespread use of masks didn’t prevent the outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan, either.


A study from April 2020 in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine came to the conclusion that neither fabric masks nor surgical masks can prevent the spread of the Covid19 virus by coughing.


An article in the New England Journal of Medicine from May 2020 also comes to the conclusion that respiratory masks offer little or no protection in everyday life. The call for a mask requirement is described as an “irrational fear reflex”.

Numerous experts have already pointed out that an express vaccine against the new coronavirus is not necessary or useful due to the overall low lethality (see above) and the already declining spread. The protection of risk groups, especially in nursing homes, could be much more targeted.

  • An employee of the German Ministry of the Interior, responsible for disaster protection, together with external experts wrote a 100-page analysis paper on corona crisis management, which was leaked to the press at the beginning of May and created strong reactions. In the paper, C0VlD-19 is described as a “global false alarm” because “there was probably at no time a risk beyond the normal level” for the general population. The collateral damage caused by the lockdown is now significantly higher than the recognizable benefit and far exceeds the risk potential of the corona virus. In March and April alone, over a million operations were not carried out in Germany. The data supplied by the official RKI were “not reliable” as the basis for decision-making. The official was subsequently fired because he had created the paper “without authorization”.

@Vigilante, this one's for you:

Florida: Despite numerous senior citizens, Florida introduced minimal restrictions and no general lockdown, even the popular beaches were reopened early, which was heavily criticized by many US media. Nevertheless, Florida did very well compared to other states and recently had around 2300 deaths in a population of 21 million, which corresponds to Germany’s mortality.


In an interview, the governor explained that contrary to the media, he realized early on based on the figures from South Korea and Italy that Covid19 was only dangerous for a very small risk group and he therefore protected the nursing homes as best as possible. In terms of prevention, nursing homes were even more important than the clinics themselves, and this strategy had proven itself. At the end of May, the governor announced that summer camps and youth activities could be carried out without restrictions.

  • Transmission routes: A new report by the US health agency CDC comes to the conclusion that the virus is transmitted primarily through direct contact with people and “cannot spread easily on surfaces.” The German virologist Hendrik Streeck was already able to demonstrate that the new corona virus does not or hardly spread through objects or through aerosols floating in the air.

  • Distance rules: Iceland declared the distance rules optional at the end of May and reopened bars and clubs. Switzerland converted the distance regulations into a voluntary recommendation. A Cochrane study from 2011 already showed that there is so far hardly any evidence for the effectiveness of “social distancing” measures.

  • Surgeries: According to an article in the British Journal of Surgery, around 28 million surgeries, including many cancer surgeries, have been canceled or postponed worldwide over 12 weeks due to corona measures.

  • Years of life: An evaluation by four US professors comes to the conclusion that the lockdown in the USA will cost about twice as many years of life as C0VlD-19 and was therefore a very counterproductive measure even from a medical point of view.

  • Italy: Almost 5% of the population in Milan already had antibodies against Covid19 in mid-February, ie before the outbreak of the epidemic in Italy. This again indicates that the virus was already circulating in Europe earlier than previously thought.

  • Unemployment: The International Labor Agency ILO expects that due to the political corona measures, half of the world’s employees or 1.6 billion people are at risk of losing their livelihoods.

  • Norway: The Prime Minister of Norway publicly admitted that she panicked in March and that most of the lockdown measures would probably not have been necessary. In Norway, too, it became known that the reproduction number already fell to the stable value of 1 before the lockdown. In the case of a “second wave”, a much softer strategy without lockdown would have to be chosen, the Prime Minister declared.

  • There were approximately 100,000 test-positive deaths in the United States by the end of May. The overall mortality rate since the beginning of the year was, however, in the range of the strong flu season of 2017/2018 (see chart below).

  • Most of the U.S. Army’s field hospitals, which were built for a total of $ 660 million, closed again in May without treating even a single patient.


  • After about four weeks of relative excess mortality, since the middle of May Switzerland is already in experiencing below-average mortality. The cumulative mortality rate since the beginning of the year is in the range of a normal flu season and far below the strong flu season of 2015 (see chart below). Around 50% of deaths occurred in nursing homes that did not benefit from a lockdown. The median age of deaths is around 84 years, which is slightly above the average Swiss life expectancy.

  • Germany and Austria have not had any significant excess mortality since March. In fact, Germany has even seen a slightly below-average level of mortality since the beginning of the year if corrected for population growth.
 

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This meme is so unbelievably powerful, and most people will completely fail to comprehend it to its fullest extent. The federal government has doomed this nation to default and failure.

@Vigilante had said the riot threads need to be separate, and those quickly dwindled into shit.

That cannot happen again. It wasn’t his fault, obviously, however it is now clear the riots are lockdown are married. Let’s F*cking behave ourselves. Shall we?

What we are living through is the last hope for America. These protests, riots and loots are directly tied to the lockdown; both efforts to destroy the economy, small business, only later to incite a race war and create massive unprecedented divide.

Who the F*ck is racist anymore? I don’t know a soul. No doubt there are still legitimate racists, but they are the smallest minority. 99.9% of normal people couldn’t give a shit. Not a morsel.

Instead the same politicians that command the black vote, continually, as they have done forever, write law and policy that keeps minorities in poverty. It’s by design. And it’s not “conservatives,” “the white man,” or “corporate America” doing it. It’s your own F*cking government that you keep voting into office.

We are being driven toward total civil destruction resulting in a new communist government. Many of our overlords in the house and senate, governors and mayors, are communist sympathizers. You needn’t look further than the words coming from their mouths.

Sounds ridiculous. I know. Open your mind a bit and you’ll see that’s it’s not so ridiculous. COVID is clearly a hoax at this point, but the economic destruction, unemployment and mental health issues are very, very real

Yet our government overlords continue lockdowns and bullshit mask-wearing, social distancing narratives.

It’s pretty weird that as soon as the public began to grow skeptical of the COVID narrative, one of hundreds of murders by police suddenly explodes into nationwide marches.

Corporations have been quick to help spread propaganda, just as they did with COVID in full THX 1138 style. Unprecedented.

Why was George Floyd’s funeral exempt from all social distancing and COVID-related narrative?

Why are all the marches being signed off by city mayors in outright defiance of governor-mandated COVID policy, with the governors giving their full support? Restaurants cannot reopen in MA, and probably many states, yet thousands of protestors are allowed to march, hand in hand, down the same streets those restaurants occupy. Social distancing need not apply.

Why are police being told to stand down and not enforce law and order given widespread looting and arson?

Who is planning and funding the agent provocateurs hiding behind protests, inciting riots and violence? Pallets of bricks and stones aren’t cheap, nor can you have one, let alone hundreds delivered on a whim. Coming from the construction industry, I can tell you it doesn’t work like that. Lead times anyone? Hah. Not when a riot needs to be had. It was F*cking planned.

Our country is under communist insurrection. The economy and law and order are being destroyed. What the F*ck happened during the Bolshevik revolution? What did it become? I don’t know, Lenin and Stalin?

Again, it sounds ridiculous. I’ll let history speak for itself.
 

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Why was George Floyd’s murder-by-cop chosen over all the others? There are many others. Thousands.

The man was no saint. Certainly not a martyr.

Yet he is the current poster child for police brutality, spun concurrently into racism by default of being American.

Its’s funny (not really) that a violent criminal is made a martyr for young black men and boys to look up to and revere.

Jeez, I don’t know, might that help further keeping blacks in poverty? Forget about being an upstanding citizen, a successful man, or husband or father. Why bother with that when you can invade the home of a pregnant woman, point a gun at her womb and rob her dwelling? Shit, a few years after that you’ll be a national hero.

Why are most black “martyrs” criminals?

Maybe it’s because the SJW, liberal mentality perpetuates institutional racism? Perhaps the same politicians that this ilk continues to vote into office want blacks and other minorities to eat from their palm so that they remain in power?

Their system is failing.

Sympathizing with communists will give them what they want:

POWER.
 
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Remember when the WHO said that asymptomatic transmission was very real, and then a couple of days ago they said that it was actually very rare?

Well it should come as a surprise to no one by now, but they walked back on that statement again.

Van Kerkhove acknowledged Tuesday that her use of the phrase “very rare” had been a miscommunication. She said she had based that phrasing on findings from a small number of studies that followed asymptomatic cases and tracked how many of their contacts became infected. She said she did not mean to imply that “asymptomatic transmission globally” was happening rarely, because that has not been determined yet.

This has been the repeating pattern through this whole ordeal. Experts saying one thing, and people building their whole lives around a badly worded quote, only for the experts to come out and clarify themselves and rinse and repeat.
 

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Why was George Floyd’s murder-by-cop chosen over all the others? There are many others. Thousands.

The man was no saint. Certainly not a martyr.

Yet he is the current poster child for police brutality, spun concurrently into racism by default of being American.

Its’s funny (not really) that a violent criminal is made a martyr for young black men and boys to look up to and revere.

Jeez, I don’t know, might that help further keeping blacks in poverty? Forget about being an upstanding citizen, a successful man, or husband or father. Why bother with that when you can invade the home of a pregnant woman, point a gun at her womb and rob her dwelling? Shit, a few years after that you’ll be a national hero.

Why are most black “martyrs” criminals?

Maybe it’s because the SJW, liberal mentality perpetuates institutional racism? Perhaps the same politicians that this ilk continues to vote into office want blacks and other minorities to eat from their palm so that they remain in power?

Their system is failing.

Sympathizing with communists will give them what they want:

POWER.
Right...sooooo, the guy had a criminal history(that he payed his debt for) and that entitles the police to murder him with a smile on their face. I don't agree with the martyr narrative, but I also have a big issue with this mindset that since he had a criminal background, his killing is "no big deal". We have a double edged sword....and no easy answers.

For me, as the father of 5 black children, I am less concerned about how my kids perceive George Flloyd. They have their own dad to look up to. I am more concerned about how quickly the police will draw their weapon over a misunderstanding. We have seen the police draw their weapons and fire without provocation. My kids are law abiding citizens and I fear for them.
 
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Who is planning and funding the agent provocateurs hiding behind protests, inciting riots and violence? Pallets of bricks and stones aren’t cheap, nor can you have one, let alone hundreds delivered on a whim. Coming from the construction industry, I can tell you it doesn’t work like that. Lead times anyone? Hah. Not when a riot needs to be had. It was F*cking planned.

Nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvabkBo9WmE
 
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Right...sooooo, the guy had a criminal history(that he payed his debt for) and that entitles the police to murder him with a smile on their face. I don't agree with the martyr narrative, but I also have a big issue with this mindset that since he had a criminal background, his killing is "no big deal". We have a double edged sword....and no easy answers.

For me, as the father of 5 black children, I am less concerned about how my kids perceive George Flloyd. They have their own dad to look up to. I am more concerned about how quickly the police will draw their weapon over a misunderstanding. We have seen the police draw their weapons and fire without provocation. My kids are law abiding citizens and I fear for them.
Straw man.

I called it what it was, murder.

In no way, shape or form did I justify his killing or say it was no big deal.

The DA didn’t charge Chauvin properly, as they never do for crimes committed by police, and he’ll probably walk. Perhaps not , but the other three cops most certainly will.

We’re on the same side

The narrative is real, whether you agree with it or not. Where’s the outrage for all the other police murders? They’re no big deal? Black, white and everything in between?

The one murder chosen to frontline all this was George Floyd’s. A crackhead with a violent past for young men and boys to respect as a martyr.

Why?

WHY?

Why not the law abiding, successful men (of all ethnicities) who have been killed by police?

Your children are fortunate to have a dad like you. Many children are not as fortunate, and many are fatherless, which is why the martyrdom narrative is so dangerous.

Race has nothing do with this. Police should not be killing innocent Americans in the street. Period. Innocent until proven guilty right?

All of this aside, George Floyd’s murder and the protests are being used as a front for communist agent provocateurs.

Gestapo police brutality is most definitely an atrocity, as is communist insurrection.

Race is the distraction.
 

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Sounds like paradise but obviously there's a dark side of this:



As critical as I am about lockdowns, I applaud New Zealand which, in just a matter of three and a half months, is done with all this BS. I sure would love to be a New Zealand citizen now and see life go back to normal, without the ****** social distancing tapes, mandatory masks, restrictions on everything, etc.

They had a very strict lockdown but at least it worked. Obviously they have a huge geographic advantage but still. They ruined their economy but so did every country around the world without much to show for it (including Sweden and their lax approach which in the end didn't save neither economy nor lives).

If the world really can't do without lockdowns, then at least it would sure be nice they worked so well that life could go back to normal.

I'm in Barbados with just 4 active cases left and no new cases in over two weeks but for some reason I doubt they lift all restrictions once there's 0 cases.

Every country that took it seriously is now on the way to lifting restrictions, also there are few, if any conspiracy theories in these countries.

My brother and nephew live in Germany, and they find all the conspiracies hilarious. They are just about to come out of lockdown as well.

It is no coincidence that the three governments who didn't take it seriously, and plied their public with misinformation, are also the countries with the highest cases and the stupidest conspiracy theories. US, Brazil, UK.
 

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The one murder chosen to frontline all this was George Floyd’s. A crackhead with a violent past for young men and boys to respect as a martyr.

Why?

WHY?

Because it was caught on camera.

Because he clearly wasn't resisting.

Because the crime they were arresting him for was a non violent financial crime.

Because other murders by the police, are not filmed.

Because the majority of people ignore stories about racist cops killing people inside cells.

The black community have been going on about this for decades, yet they are ignored.

Do you remember the name of the black lady that was arrested for nothing? She was stopped by a traffic cop, then tased, then arrested, then murdered. This all happened a few weeks after she explained why saying all lives matter, in response to BLM is ignorant in the extreme, because law-abiding white people, and even white criminals, generally don't have to worry about police brutality.

Lots of noise from the African American community. A few news articles, then it was ignored by white America.

(I'm not putting her name here, because I'm interested to know if you had heard of her before).

Can't ignore us now.
 
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So food prices are going up, which should be a nice addition to people who are already facing financial hardship.


Also, to anyone who considers discussing George Floyd and everything surrounding that, you should take heed of the fact that these phenomena have, for all practical considerations, become a religious movement. People were literally washing other people's feet in public.

Regardless of what opinions you might have on this subject, discuss your thoughts on it at your own peril.

There are plenty of righteous zealots who are prepared to burn heretics for the cause, with heresy being defined as merely saying something that can be twisted in a way to go against the mainstream narrative, or even to agree with the narrative but just not strongly enough. You've been warned.
 

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So food prices are going up, which should be a nice addition to people who are already facing financial hardship.


Also, to anyone who considers discussing George Floyd and everything surrounding that, you should take heed of the fact that these phenomena have, for all practical considerations, become a religious movement. People were literally washing other people's feet in public.

Regardless of what opinions you might have on this subject, discuss your thoughts on it at your own peril.

There are plenty of righteous zealots who are prepared to burn heretics for the cause, with heresy being defined as merely saying something that can be twisted in a way to go against the mainstream narrative, or even to agree with the narrative but just not strongly enough. You've been warned.

Even if you support/agree with the movement, but you either don't articulate it right or just don't FIT the movement, that can be problematic for you. You can be sympathetic and encouraging, and fringe elements can turn on you also. There almost isn't a right answer today. Companies that SUPPORT positive messaging and change are now being assaulted for too little, too late. Maybe that's even a FAIR criticism as opportunists jump on the politically correct bandwagon. This shouldn't be a slogan, a hash tag, or a feel good social media post. This needs to be a REVOLUTION. The system is BROKEN. However, this is in the pandemic thread, so I will exit this portion of the discussion in hopes this thread gets back on topic. But I agree with your post.
 

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There almost isn't a right answer today.

That's exactly what I'm getting at. You're f***ed no matter what opinion you give - the mob wants blood, and any blood will do.
 
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That's exactly what I'm getting at. You're f***ed no matter what opinion you give - the mob wants blood, and any blood will do.

Caine: Master Tae, What is the best way to deal with force?
Master Tae: As we prize peace and quiet above victory, there is a simple and preferred method….. run the fk away!
 

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Regardless of what opinions you might have on this subject, discuss your thoughts on it at your own peril.

There are plenty of righteous zealots who are prepared to burn heretics for the cause, with heresy being defined as merely saying something that can be twisted in a way to go against the mainstream narrative, or even to agree with the narrative but just not strongly enough. You've been warned.

Correct. I am torn on the whole thing. I know that there are too many that are in power and really NEED to lose a lot of that power, and that people of color need to be treated the same as their non-colored counterparts. At the same time, if you can and will be burned at the stake for offering any counter-arguments, then you greatly risk not having a real accurate picture....and you risk not deploying the correct response.

There is one other political topic that follows this same pattern. The common denominator is that they are both highly emotional topics. And unfortunately, in the political world, the emotion usually wins against all of the supporting data. Emotion wins votes and gets laws passed.....not data.
 

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Remember when the WHO said that asymptomatic transmission was very real, and then a couple of days ago they said that it was actually very rare?

Well it should come as a surprise to no one by now, but they walked back on that statement again.



This has been the repeating pattern through this whole ordeal. Experts saying one thing, and people building their whole lives around a badly worded quote, only for the experts to come out and clarify themselves and rinse and repeat.

I've been following the coronavirus and everything about it since December.

Asymptomatic people are unlikely to spread the disease, however, asymptomatic means no symptoms throughout the whole duration of the virus in the host.

Presymptomatic people are very much likely to spread the disease, however, unlike asymptomatic people, who never develop symptoms, presymptomatic people eventually do.

WHO sucks, the media sucks, what's new?

@Vigilante 's communist theory is something I agree with. The patterns are there. I'll give an example.

Reddit is owned by the CCP. A month or two ago in the peak of quarantine, there was a live broadcast on the first page. A dude was dancing in a yellow/orange latex suit to ABBA and other 80s disco music while his dog watched.

Sounds fairly innocent and homoerotic, right? He had 100K people watching him live, with more than a few million total views in an hour of dancing..

Att one point he randomly took a list of paper which said "BERNIE SANDERS FOR PRESIDENT :)" and waved it on camera for 10 seconds.

Again, this was randomly on the first page. Coincidence? I don't know.
 
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So food prices are going up, which should be a nice addition to people who are already facing financial hardship.


Also, to anyone who considers discussing George Floyd and everything surrounding that, you should take heed of the fact that these phenomena have, for all practical considerations, become a religious movement. People were literally washing other people's feet in public.

Regardless of what opinions you might have on this subject, discuss your thoughts on it at your own peril.

There are plenty of righteous zealots who are prepared to burn heretics for the cause, with heresy being defined as merely saying something that can be twisted in a way to go against the mainstream narrative, or even to agree with the narrative but just not strongly enough. You've been warned.

Right, I am really worried.

Back then in Germany we learned that in order for history not to repeat itself we need to oppose censorship, normalizing violence and witch hunts and accept that everything needs an opposition.

Now the lesson has changed to: we are fine if we oppose white supremacy - and anything goes - especially censorship, violence and witch hunts and nobody has the right to oppose any of the methods.

Looking at Germany you can definitely see that, when it comes to tolerance and diversity, it will never be enough.

There is almost no racism, but there is so much demand for racism that people find it.

Germans stare. That is obviously racism. The baker just kept saying "anything else?" ... obviously racist.
Hardly anybody complains about racism ... obviously we need to start surveying minorities properly with appropriately suggestive questions. Now there are so many incidents with violence from refugees that some form of opposition might be justified!? No way, what a racist thought.

Statistics get obfuscated and the ethnicity of a criminal is censored ... unless they are white, of course. Because that could lead to racism.

When you see statistics of race related violence, the biggest organization responsible consists of old turkish men. Antisemitism is kept alive almost entirely by muslims. Still, even if only 20 of 520 deaths in refugee shelters can be considered racially motivated, the obvious takeaway has to be that we need to increase our effort to reeducate white people about their profound racial biases.
 

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Because it was caught on camera.

Because he clearly wasn't resisting.

Because the crime they were arresting him for was a non violent financial crime.

Because other murders by the police, are not filmed.

Because the majority of people ignore stories about racist cops killing people inside cells.

The black community have been going on about this for decades, yet they are ignored.

Do you remember the name of the black lady that was arrested for nothing? She was stopped by a traffic cop, then tased, then arrested, then murdered. This all happened a few weeks after she explained why saying all lives matter, in response to BLM is ignorant in the extreme, because law-abiding white people, and even white criminals, generally don't have to worry about police brutality.

Lots of noise from the African American community. A few news articles, then it was ignored by white America.

(I'm not putting her name here, because I'm interested to know if you had heard of her before).

Can't ignore us now.
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We need to make one thing clear, I am antigovernment. More specifically I am anti invasive government. I am not an anarchist. I am pro law and order. Pro law and order under laws that are constitutional. That being said, gestapo pig beat-down murders don’t fly with me.

The current narrative being fed you’re swallowing by the ladle.

Most police brutalities are ignored by the media. Except when it fits the narrative. Race plays a part, but we are all Americans, and Americans of all ethnicities are murdered by police.

Don’t swallow the narrative. We are all Americans. The media and politicians are dividing us to push their agenda.

We need to unite as Americans who want liberty and nothing less.

Democrats and the left have kept blacks under their thumb for the better part of a century. Republicans are no better, the system is rigged to divide us. Don’t think that voting democrat is “pro-black.” It isn’t.

Government is doing what government does, consolidating power at all costs, and it is using the black community to do so.

These protests and riots are inorganic. The protests have been artificially grown by the media, and the riots have been fomented by agent provocateurs.

The communist left is using black oppression, that it has perpetuated, as a means to overthrown the current system.

White, black and brown will suffer under the new system being pushed.

Don’t fall for the narrative. They only want to divide us. We are all Americans. Brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers, regardless of our color.

The current movement will only lead to more police brutality. More control. More surveillance.

COVID was the first chapter. A race war is the second chapter. If you can’t see that, you haven’t done enough critical thinking, and instead have decided to believe what you are told to believe.

All Americans need to unite in order to stop this. All of us. Skin color need not apply. We are all children of God.
 

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