The Coronavirus thread

Top Pathologist Claims Coronavirus is “The Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated on an Unsuspecting Public

Hodkinson remarked that “social distancing is useless because COVID is spread by aerosols which travel 30 meters or so before landing,” as he called for society to be re-opened immediately to prevent the debilitating damage being caused by lockdowns... Masks are utterly useless. There is no evidence base for their effectiveness whatsoever, he said.
Paper masks and fabric masks are simply virtue signaling. They’re not even worn effectively most of the time. It’s utterly ridiculous. Seeing these unfortunate, uneducated people – I’m not saying that in a pejorative sense – seeing these people walking around like lemmings obeying without any knowledge base to put the mask on their face...
The doctor also slammed the unreliability of PCR tests, noting that “positive test results do not, underlined in neon, mean a clinical infection,” and that all testing should stop because the false numbers are “driving public hysteria.”
and that it was simply “outrageous” to shut down society for what the doctor said “was just another bad flu.”

https://summit.news/2020/11/18/top-pathologist-claims-coronavirus-is-the-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-an-unsuspecting-public/

Me and AZD have been saying
this since the start. It's all
political, meant to control us.
I knew it when Foochi-Woochi
and the USSG said right away
that masks were useless and then
almost immediately retracted
it & did a 180 and said we all have
to wear masks to save lives.
Somebody got to them, obviously.
Now in Calif they are trying to
pass a law that you must wear a mask
inside your home. More control
of the lemmings.

Quote: JCW09

He'll get smarter if he ever has to sign the front of a paycheck.

If that's the case you should have voted for Democrat candidates Bloomberg or Steyer. By all measures they were more successful running companies than Trump as they didn't lose a billion, run companies into the ground, and get on the hook for 400 million loans they may have trouble paying. Trump's a huckster who seems more prone to rather bad arcs of success and then failure, meanwhile lying about everything. That looks like his model to me.

Quote: rxwine

If that's the case you should have voted for Democrat candidates Bloomberg or Steyer. By all measures they were more successful running companies than Trump as they didn't lose a billion, run companies into the ground, and get on the hook for 400 million loans they may have trouble paying. Trump's a huckster who seems more prone to rather bad arcs of success and then failure, meanwhile lying about everything. That looks like his model to me.

A real estate developer borrows money? STOP THE PRESSES!

Quote: Evenbob

Me and AZD have been saying
this since the start. It's all
political, meant to control us.
I knew it when Foochi-Woochi
and the USSG said right away
that masks were useless and then
almost immediately retracted
it & did a 180 and said we all have
to wear masks to save lives.
Somebody got to them, obviously.
Now in Calif they are trying to
pass a law that you must wear a mask
inside your home. More control
of the lemmings.

Guy I know told me he has an employee who's wife makes the family wear masks inside their home. You can bet the pro maskers in CA will support that law. Some people just desire to be told what to do.

Quote: Tripdufan

What spending bills were veto proof during the Trump administration? I'll wait.

Had Trump vetoed the dem spending, they would have gladly shut down the government, as they threatened to do in 2017, 2018 and 2020.

Trump threatened to shut down the government as well, but the dems really meant it.

They could easily give Trump what he wants in the next stimulus and get the rest from Biden. Instead, they’ve chosen to let their pawns suffer and line up by the tens of thousands, for food handouts, while they wait for Biden to play Santa Claus.

As for the tax revenues being lower than projected. CBO tax revenue projections every year, are always $100 billion or more higher than actual receipts. They are never right. Ever.

The tax bill was passed in December 2017. Tax receipts for 2019 were $156 billion higher than they were in 2017. Tax receipts in 2019 increased nearly 4% over 2018, when the previous record was set. In prior years they improved by less than 1%.

In addition to record tax receipts, the economy saw record increases in employment, real wages, investment, job growth and consumer spending.

Quote: JimRockford

If the economy under Trump (pre-Covid) was so great, why was he constantly begging the Fed to reduce interest rates from their already ridiculously low level?
He even asked for negative rates which are a symptom of a seriously unhealthy economy.

He wants to increase M2V. The velocity of money. The rate at which money changes hands and moves through the economy. It has been falling for the past twenty-five years and is at a historic low. Four rounds of QE only resulted in a nominal multiplier effect when M2V failed to increase. You can’t have an economic boom without M2V going higher. M2V increased at the end of every recession, but it has been falling further since 2010.

The Fed is currently purchasing $80 billion in Treasury securities and $40 billion in mortgage backed securities every month to keep interest rates near zero.

Quote: Tanko

What would you have done differently?

It takes more than ten years to develop a vaccine. The US already has two in less than nine months.

Don't hold your breath for an actual answer. He'll probably say something incredibly flaky like "He should have done better!" 😂😂

Quote: rxwine

If that's the case you should have voted for Democrat candidates Bloomberg or Steyer.

I didn't see either of them on my November ballot as a viable candidate, were they on yours?
The DNC took care of that when they crowned Biden as their pick before Super Tuesday.
The DNC can't have a successful businessman as their candidate.
It doesn't fit the "equal outcomes, not equal opportunity" narrative and their base wouldn't come out and support such a candidate.
Heels Up video on equal outcomes was telling for sure, she is a pure socialist, but America gets that.
It is why the GOP will pick up as many as 14 House Seats and retain control of the Senate.
The choice this month was Trump & sub 4% unemployment pre-Covid or career politician House Plant Biden/Heels Up Harris.
America has chosen, get the Orange Man Bad Man out. I wish them well.
Meanwhile I'll continue making money under whatever regime is in place, just tell me the rules and I'll adjust business accordingly.
If that means making less with fewer employees because of Obamacare requirements & higher marginal taxes, fair enough.
I'll employ less people and have more time away from the business.
People react to incentives and if you make it less attractive to grow business, employ more people to make more money
That's what business owners will do, human economic behavior isn't rocket science.
But if all you have ever done economically is work for someone else & cash a paycheck, these are very foreign concepts.

Quote: Tanko

They could easily give Trump what he wants in the next stimulus and get the rest from Biden.

LMAO. Anybody who thinks this hasn't been paying attention to the way Mitch McConnell has been running the senate.

lol easily give Trump what he wants now and expect McConnell to give dems what THEY want when Biden gets in? lol what world you living in?

Quote: Tripdufan

lol easily give Trump what he wants now and expect McConnell to give dems what THEY want when Biden gets in? lol what world you living in?

That's a given.

When Trump did something like request a larger stimulus than McConnell or the other Repubs wanted, most of them can barely whimper their objections. However if Biden does it, he'll be accused of world ending consequences for the same thing.