Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Follies

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January 10th, 2022 at 6:47:36 AM permalink
terapined
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Splain it then

Vaccines work
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January 10th, 2022 at 10:01:12 AM permalink
Evenbob
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AOC Tests Positive for Coronavirus

There's a bunch of video of her dancing with no mask and hugging people in Florida. I'm sure she thought she was fully protected because she's got both shots and a recent booster. She believed her parties baloney hype. Suckers...
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January 10th, 2022 at 10:19:58 AM permalink
Mission146
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Quote: SOOPOO
Frankly, Rxwine did a great job a few posts back. But, FROM THE BEGINNING, the vaccines were never expected to give 100% of the people 100% immunity. And with each mutation the original vaccines are somewhat less effective. But to me, the BOTTOM LINE is that you have a MUCH LOWER chance of dying, or even getting really sick, if you have been vaccinated than if you haven’t. The dead and dying are predominantly unvaccinated now. Can you find an exception? Sure. Luckily for ALL, Omicron seems very ineffective as a killer.


Doesn't it make sense that Covid would develop into something less lethal? I'm obviously not a virologist, but what limited understanding I recall of viruses (from high school and college) is that viruses want to propagate, so it's, "Best," for a virus to evolve into a variant that is not lethal, or is minimally lethal, to its host.

Again, I'm going off of what I think I remember from nearly two decades ago, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
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January 12th, 2022 at 11:01:00 AM permalink
gamerfreak
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Quote: Mission146
Doesn't it make sense that Covid would develop into something less lethal? I'm obviously not a virologist, but what limited understanding I recall of viruses (from high school and college) is that viruses want to propagate, so it's, "Best," for a virus to evolve into a variant that is not lethal, or is minimally lethal, to its host.

Again, I'm going off of what I think I remember from nearly two decades ago, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

lethality != transmissibility

I believe viruses often mutate to become more transmissible, but not necessarily more severe.
January 12th, 2022 at 9:33:23 PM permalink
Pacomartin
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Quote: gamerfreak
I believe viruses often mutate to become more transmissible, but not necessarily more severe.


If last week's COVID death toll is 21% higher than the average for 2021.

The 1918 flu virus which killed more people than any other pandemic since the black death, never really died out. It mixed with other flu strains and was part of the virulent flu in 1957, 1968 and 2009.

1,930,082 deaths reported in 1968
2,437,163 deaths reported in 2009
2,831,836 deaths reported in 2018
2,845,793 deaths reported in 2019
3,400,000 deaths reported in revised number for 2020
3,400,000 deaths estimated for 2021

Although the estimated death toll for COVID in the USA is ~868,000 (354,000 in 2019 and 514,000 in 2020) we can see that there have been 1,108,414 extra deaths in combined 2020 and 2021 over the 2019 deaths.

3,605,201 is the provisional number of births for the United States in 2020 (down 4% from 2019)

So unlike many countries around the world and most countries in Europe we still have a positive vegetative growth.
February 19th, 2022 at 4:28:13 PM permalink
terapined
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WTF
Tucker Carlson claims AOC is white
??????
She's Hispanic
That's not considered white
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February 19th, 2022 at 5:41:51 PM permalink
missedhervee
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"In the United States, a white Hispanic or Latino is an individual who self-identifies as white and is of full or partial Hispanic or Latino descent..."

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
February 19th, 2022 at 10:24:46 PM permalink
Mooseton
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Quote: terapined
WTF
Tucker Carlson claims AOC is white
??????
She's Hispanic
That's not considered white


Why is this of any importance?
February 20th, 2022 at 3:06:38 AM permalink
AZDuffman
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Quote: missedhervee
"In the United States, a white Hispanic or Latino is an individual who self-identifies as white and is of full or partial Hispanic or Latino descent..."

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans


I thought it was a tag the media used if a Hispanic attacked a black?
The President is a fink.
February 20th, 2022 at 4:05:03 AM permalink
ams288
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Quote: Mooseton
Why is this of any importance?


Dunno. Why did a racist like Tucker spend time on his show talking about it?
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