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I liked when some dimwit asked a Trucker (who cannot love the Truckers) so how long are you going to stay in Ottawa and he replied "Remember how it took 2 weeks to flatten the curve....?". That is pure mathematical genius right there, so don't be alarmed. Go Truckers!!!!

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That's awesome!! I think I'll use the same thinking about paying taxes too.

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I keep thinking we should all take the free masks and test kits, wrap them inside printed 1040 forms and mail to IRS as tax payments. Sign Joe’s name on them.

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What? The 2 weeks to flatten the curve was for our own good and was based on science. The 100 day thing that was good too. The vaccines may not have worked but they are great and everyone should be made to get one.

How could you not know these things? Don't you watch the news? Besides that The Party says it was all good. Would have gotten a lot better a lot sooner but some people didn't want to do what they were told. You aren't one of them are you?

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this totally cracks me up - it's such a perfect description of the attitude!

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Yes to all of this! Thank god our fearless leaders are tirelessly working to protect us. They therefore must be obeyed, because they know best. I’m ready for shots 5-10 and am triple masking and washing all my junk mail. Go towards the light, people!

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You confused me, I thought I was reading the SF Chronicle comments for a second.

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We call it the Comical in these here parts😄

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They love us and they super duper promise to protect us forever if we just give them the rest of our assets. Don’t worry, you’ll own nothing and be happy.

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“Washing all the junk mail, oh no oh no, I’m not doing my part, I’m not doing enough, I’m so afraid of germs”, chicken little

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Oh I did what they told, but not what they meant: FOLLOW THE SCIENCE.

(and that prompted me to do an additional thing they did not tell: Follow the money.)

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You betcha, bob's yer uncle.

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I've always wanted to know what "Bob's yer uncle" meant. is it sarcasm?

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It's British in origin and loosely means: Voila / There you go / And there it is / No problem / Easy to achieve. The origin is the problem of nepotism. It is said to be linked to when Lord Robert (Bob) Salisbury appointed his nephew to an important post and the reaction of the commoners was that you could get whatever you want when Lord Bob was your uncle. Eventually it evolved to a number of uses, often, "there ya go." Professor suggested "some people didn't want to do what they were told. You aren't one of them, are you?" The reply: You betcha, bob's yer uncle.

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Cool. I understood the meaning but did not know the origin. Thanks!

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I love history!

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And Science!

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These days isn’t it Bob’s yer auntie or Bob’s yer binary?

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🤣

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Thanks for the great explainer.

My "Uncle Bob" is "Cooking with Gas" and so do I, 'cuz science.

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Love it! Thank you!

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In parts of Australia it has evolved to “Bob’s your aunties live in lover”

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It was 2 weeks on "god time", which after all he supposedly created the earth in a week lol

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Oh look. Every professor I know made a joint account and are posting together on gato malo :)

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This is not a joint account. 😉

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The Vaccines wont work until those who haven't taken the vax do so! Science! Duh.

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Political Science

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Ah, tricked the dog!

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Purrfect! 💥

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Every evil thing they concoct is 'for our own good.' They are gonna f*ck around and find out.

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Lol

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I think it's the Math Formation psychosis. We are not supposed to notice such things.

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soon they will dismiss math in school, like they stopped children to learn to read and write hand written word. Soon kids will come out of school totally illiterate, like slaves should be.

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OMG arriving at correct answers is racist? Wait I have to grab a towel, I am laughing that hard. Surely California must soon be empty ? Who is going to want to live there anymore ?

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Finding a non-covidian here is like finding a nugget at the end of the gold-rush. It's pure magic.

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Of course it's racist. Who needs math when all the math is done for you?

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Only a racist would think that there's only one definition of the word "correct". That sounds like hate speech...

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Just to be sure, this was sarcasm.

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Big Brother couldn't accept it if people insisted that 2 + 2 = 4.

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People that are bad at math?

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People who can’t do math

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As someone exiting Cali I am in favor of this. Less competition for the kids coming out of our new red state.

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Fight the patriarchy by freeing integers and rational numbers from male-dominated constructs? I’m in if it means I no longer have to grade math tests. Oh wait, tests are racist.

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Thank you for this insight. I was aware that cursive and hand printing had been deemed archaic and unnecessary. Follow the thought and notice that now EVERY bit written will have a computer intermediary, and ALL communication will be available to our masters. The Thought Police are nearby.

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Although " never put it in writing " is always good advice. Glad I grew up before selfies and internet archives , lol

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Dr Lyons Weiler happened to notice (recent substack) that some recent big pharma study of some covid related thing said (1) 73% of a certain amount and (2) 83% of a certain amount and (3) 87% of another amount “averaged” 88%. Is that the new math?

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Math, reading, and English, I think, are no longer required to graduate from high school, I think, in Oregon.

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Maff and spalling racist in Orygun

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LOL

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They already are in many places in NJ

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Lon guyland used to say that all the time in Montauk

Referring to up “up island”

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;-)

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Were you lisping or cracking a joke?

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hahaha

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*insert pic of Mike Tyson smiling*

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The new 'thinking':

I read the ingredients on packages and won't buy anything with chemical food colorings or artificial flavoring. I just don't want to put that stuff in my body.

I try my best to avoid process foods and I will not under any circumstances buy a product that does not list ingredients on the label.

And those GMO's, well I think the science is still out on that stuff so I try to avoid GMO foods. I know Monsanto says it's safe but I don't trust a big corporation like that. They may be lying .

Did I get vaxxed? Of course I did. No, I don't know the ingredients. Yes, Pfizer is a big corporation. The government said it was safe and effective and Pfizer tries to help people with medicines.

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So true. My friend met all these "modern day hippies" at a class she was taking. They are into completely healthy food...but they all got the jab. It doesn't make sense.

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I know a whole family like that. Drink no milk, avoid all harmful chemicals, but all got jabbed and boostered. All in the paramedical as well. Did not even ask about ingredients.

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Tell them "Now that you're vaxxed, YOU are a GMO."

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I read that Pfizer got a patent on 18500 of the jabbed people. God knows what they will do! Manipulate them some way ?

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They now can use their genetic material to make vaccines and other therapeutics. Gratis, thanks to the Supreme Court. I think that is what I read. An abomination.

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A neighbor mom was telling me how she tries not to take "anything" when she has a headache. So here is a person who is against "polluting" her body with ibuprofen, then a few days later she is sprinting to the nearest clinic to get her 5 year old vaccinated. 🤔 Then, sadly her daughter got Covid after having had both shots.

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I was just thinking of how to convince some people not to jab their children. Question them. Do you think aluminum is healthy to ingest? Do you know that cooking in aluminum pots is unhealthy because microscopic particles can get in your food? Do you know there is aluminum in most vaccines? Do you think ingesting mercury is healthy? Do you know it is in vaccines? Do you know what polyethilene glycol is (PEG)? It is a not so safe ingredient in shampoo. Half of the tested shampoo still has residue of the very poisonous, flammable and explosive ingredients (one is 1.4 dioxane I think). Do you think that is a safe ingredient for vaccines? Do you know what graphene dioxide is? It looks somewhat like miniature razor blades. Do you know it is in the covid vaccines? If you know all this would you give these shots to your child?

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That person's head would be spinning! :)

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Why is it sad that a 5 year old got Covid? 5 year olds are supposed to catch colds. The sad thing is if her immune system has been damaged from her injections and she is permanently vulnerable to otherwise trivial infections.

The really sad thing is her mother's appreciation- "It could have been so much worse."

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Feb 10, 2022·edited Feb 10, 2022

My daughter's friend just got Covid-Omicron-whateverthedamnthingis--50 something woman, also her 28 year old daughter got it, as did her 7 month old. They were all somewhat sick, the baby had the sniffles, basically. The two husbands in the scenario got nothing. Everyone was jabbed except the baby.

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🙄

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That’s why I don’t believe Tom Brady took the jab.

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Never underestimate the power of fear in a person. Thank goodness a large number of us are not susceptible to fear, however.

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Yes. These folks think meat comes from plants!

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and tattoos? Ink under the skin is apparently not a chemical in this thinking. I just shake my head when I see the "organic farmers" at a farmers' market who have so many tattoos that you can't see any bare skin

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Black and dark blue tattoos compromise one's immune system. Just like the vaccines.

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As the joke goes, "I thought Johnson & Johnson were just two brothers who cared."

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Bend over and you get the first Johnson. Open your mouth for the second.

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rofl Professor ! So schizofrenic you should send them to the ward !

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💥

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And even though we didn't do the masking, all the covid metrics fell like a rock for months, exactly like it will this spring.

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So they can pretend the masks had something to do with it.

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Literally taking credit for spring, just like they did with the vaccines last year.

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I tried liking this, but couldn't do it, so you probably have more "likes" than you think...

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Lots of people have been having problems recently. I appreciate the thought :)

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I thought it was my Google phone

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I thought it was just me jabbing my finger repeatedly at the little heart

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No it is not. Someone wrote a few days ago, you can only Like 3 times in a short period, and then you have to wait before you Like something else. Darn these people. What if you like 50 at a time LOL

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Edgar Hope Simpson had this figured out in the 1950's and published a book, which has been ignored. Every single curve goes up on comes down like clockwork, seasonally and regionally. Nothing but a nuclear bomb would change that cycle.

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It's how we seasonality theorists have been correctly predicting virus activity since the summer of 2020. Yet Fauci only mentions seasonality when it's scary (just before winter).

https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/seasonality-a-story-in-pictures

https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/seasonality-in-pictures-part-ii

https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/great-news-seasonality-still-works

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Do they have a re-education camp for you dangerous seasonality theorists yet? Or is that coming with the Mal/Mis/ Disinformation legislation?

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Luckily since I knew this was coming, I've already picked out my room in the FEMA camps! It ALMOST overlooks the basketball court!!!

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Ivor Cummins has referred to that book frequently. If it weren't for good old Ivor, I wouldn't have heard of it because, as you point out, people ignore it.

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And the nuke theory hasn't been confirmed...

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They’re already taking credit. The tone from these politicians is “we all worked together and beat COVID! Great job, everyone!”

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Unspoken is "Even in the places without any covid rules at all."

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Math is racist. Just put your mask on, and stop asking questions. Also, don't forget the arm band. You did get one with your mask, right? They're a set; they work together.

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Who needs armbands anymore? Masks are so much better at showing submission and commitment to the cause.

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They could replace wristbands in the hospital. You know that place where everyone gets well? Just save resources and put all pertinent info on the mask. Easy to read. Maybe add a QR or barcode. No-brainer.

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Feb 9, 2022·edited Feb 9, 2022

1st time i ever saw the term bend the curve, what nonsense is this?

oh i was always a face nudist

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gotto remember that. A face nudist LOL

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Feb 9, 2022·edited Feb 9, 2022

The thing is, they never believed this--it was all part of the plan--to string us along. We were strung along. Half of us woke up, the other half is asleep. They are doubling down every day. What now?

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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government mandate

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Or the Patriot Act.

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reason I hate to travel. so stupid.

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Feb 9, 2022·edited Feb 9, 2022

I only drive now. . . put on about 40,000 miles EXTRA in the last 2 years!

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Half of the people woke up? 🤔

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It's the optimism in me speaking :)

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I enjoyed walking into Costco today. Giant signs on either side of the entry door that masks are absolutely required regardless of vaccine status. Hubs and I walked right in maskless (we're also vax free, although the door guards wouldn't know that). Interestingly, they said nothing to us and didn't have masks to hand out. As we did our shopping, we noticed we were the ONLY people in the place without a mask. Yet no one looked at us askance, or said anything, no hysterical Karens in sight today. This is a Costco that has had no mask signs and almost no mask wearing for over a year, so I don't know what accounted for the masking on everyone. But I definitely enjoyed bucking the trend.

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EVERYONE should be doing this across the board. I am not the most confrontational person but I am going to make people tell me I have to put it on and still refuse politely.

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I hope that half are awake, it doesn't appear so in Canada.

The Karens are still angry that we are tormenting poor Justin and would love the opportunity to vote him back with a majority. And those truckers... noisy, uneducated, we just hope they don't interfere with the tofu supply.

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That's too bad. I feel like that's us in CA.

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#savethechildren #takeCaliforniaback Everyone in California should download, sign and mail in this petition to get this initiative onto the ballot. Without bodily autonomy there is no freedom. Help to collect signatures. https://www.medicalfreedom.vote

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1/4 of us were never asleep.

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Exactly. I knew from almost the get-go.

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I know. Please forgive us.

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Is that the prequel to 100 Days of Solitude?

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Did you mean 100 Days of Solitary Internment?

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100 days of we're emptying the jails so we have room enough for the next wave of free speech 'insurrectionists' and 'seditionists.'

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It's clearly your fault because you didn't do it right... It's like Communism. It would work, people just don't do it right, so it doesn't, and the solution is just do it more until it does work.

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Not enough people complied with communism, that's the problem! Like with vax/masks etc. Darn ungovernable people ruining it for the virtuous ones! (sarc)

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Isn't there a story in the bible that states that god loves the black sheep better than the white ones? (this is NOT racist okay)

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No. But there's Jesus parable of the lost sheep. Luke 15. Precedes the parable of the prodigal son in the same chapter.

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Ah the lost sheep ! And the lost son ! Both work.

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it will never work. people are people and ants are ants. you cannot force people to act like ants (although they would love of course)

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But you sure can place the blame on the non-conformists, instead of on communism/vaccines where it belongs!

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No doubt he will be arrested for misinformation.

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oh. somewhere over the rainbow

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Just in, my first grader says, “get bent Ron.”

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Peyronie's disease is notoriously difficult to treat

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(snicker)

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Meanwhile, gas is up 25 cents a gallon this week over last. $85 to fill my truck. Bet they have that math figured out.

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some math is more equal than other.

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https://www.tyscienceguy.com/mask-documentary-series.html Here's an excellent 6 Part Mask Series by Ty, 20 years experience in PPE. Each one is about 10 minutes. Please share widely to dispel the lies with facts and end the ridiculous "mask theatre".

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This is really good. I push it regularly to the mask proponents on Twitter. Only recently got an account there yo go poke holes big enough to … drive trucks thru.

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I know that ending mandates and passports are the most important thing, but I find masks so frustrating. My Strata Committee has a mask-nazi who emailed me Mon to say I'd been seen in common areas without a mask and frightened other neighbours. The utter anti-science of it, the fact that I now have natural immunity, and the relentless message of FEAR of VIRUS it sends out is heart-sickening and dehumanizing. (They are all triple vaccinated.)

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I know several people like this, they are so fearful of death that they don’t live, or certainly don’t enjoy life. They have no concept on the true risks and think everyone is going to die if they get infected.

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2 weeks to flatten the curve

became...

2 months to test the vaccines

became...

2 years to usher in authoritarian digital governance

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Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me...

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These idiots just do not get it. Masking does not bend anything, at least not down. At best, masking leaves the curve alone. More likely, masking bends the curve up. How can that be a good thing?

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It's a good question I've been asking since April 2020 -- As long as hospitals aren't overrun, don't we want to be over with this as quickly as possible? Why would we want to extend the crisis with lockdowns and masks (if they worked) as long as the hospitals weren't in danger?

And even NYC, at the point of lowest acquired immunity and speeding up their curve by infecting all the at-risk at once, didn't overwhelm their hospitals. (Though it was close) The idea that hospitals will be overrun now but weren't then is completely illogical.

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Please stop using logic immediately, and follow The Science™! Seriously though, the point you make is one I tried to make back in May 2020 in this piece. (https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/what-did-society-benefit-by-social-distancing/) I was about a month late, compared to you, in formally asking the question. The initial marketing and positioning of social distancing, masks, and all related NPIs, placed them as mitigations for "hospital overcrowding," as you so accurately note. As is typical of government edicts, their usefulness and/or necessity creeped thereafter. Those containment strategies went from being able to "flatten the curve" to being used to "stop the spread," with nary a single iota of data, facts, or analysis to support the decision! Basically, we experienced a gigantic case of "if you give a mouse a cookie" but the cookie was the length of time wherein masks, sanitizer, and distancing were supposed to work. The answer is, they NEVER work, but the acceptance of doing them "for a little while" morphed into doing them damned-near forever. And here we are...

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At least you can still prove you said it. All my content got blasted off the internets. I can't even download my own tweet history! Crazy.

Edit: The day Inslee ordered the field hospital at Century Link field dismantled, I knew there was no chance our hospitals would be overrun. If there was even a 1% chance Inslee thought they would be needed, they would have remained up.

That was April 8, 2020.

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Small victory for me, my friend. Small victory. Take pride in getting kicked off Twitter! Amazing, and somehow satisfying to me, that so many thinkers, from so many places, came to the same conclusion(s) damned-near 2 years ago.

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When I went back to try to look up some old predictions, I couldn't go back more than a few months. Even in those conversations there was a lot of 'this user is banned' (not just me!)

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Lol(!) at "i feel like i am missing a coefficient or something"

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New Math

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Bend what? I must now go turn myself in for exposure to mis- dis- and mal-information, or MDM. Forgive me for my confusion, Dear Leader, your mercy will be appreciated for generations.

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"100 days of wearing green shirts to bend the curve. Is that too much to ask?"

Because wearing green shirts and wearing cloth masks are equally effective at bending the curve.

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I'd like to carry around one of the little hats they wear in surgery and when asked to put on a mask (there are some idiot holdout establishments even here in Alabama) I'll ask them to wear the hat. They of course ask why and I'll reply that it's to protect me from their dandruff (I'm bald). They would of course reply, "I don't have dandruff" and I answer, "I don't have covid"... Then I'd leave because I'm not going to give them any of my money.

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Obviously we are being led by psychopathic morons! Is that possible; moron and psychopath at the same time? Looks like it, doesn’t it?

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No. We are being led by morons who are being led by psychopaths.

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Sort of...the psychopaths are the leaders.....the morons are the followers.....but shhh....don't tell them, they think that they are smart and if you get them to start to question or maybe even do a little thinking.....oh boy....watch out....angry morons.....as they say

.... Hell hath no fury like a moron exposed.

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Are the 100 Days to Mask Up for Biden over yet?

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They supposedly ended July 4 of last year.

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Oh, right! When we all saved 17 cents on our picnics. Gosh.

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It’s a faith matter of the Branch Covidians, Gatito. They have their own science, their own epidemiology, and, as you have astutely uncovered, their own chronology.

You might say, their own universe, as a glimpse into Australcovidia will show:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-01/multiple-people-escape-howard-springs-quarantine-facility-darwin/100663994

It’s surreal, reading articles that depict this ludicrous policy as something reasonable people should accept as non-totalitarian-pig-criminality.

Hopefully good kittens will never be subjected to that.

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I love this comment for so many reasons...

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Question for Ronald - “do you inhabit Uranus by any chance?”. Hint: each year over there is equivalent to 84 Earth years

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Yes, he does. He's clearly got his head up his <bleep>!

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They obviously don't teach Commie Core mathematics in Kittengarten. Sorry but I don't know if you'd get it.

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100 day work around on the route to eternity.

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It's like when you're writing a term paper and need to ask for an extension, and then another extension and another. But We the People are not college professors.

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Its simple, kitty. As in a Simple Open Curve. It's all about the curve that never crosses itself but can change direction multiple times longer than you can live. It has an endpoint that is not the same as its starting point. I reckon you could say the part of the curve between the two is "time." The length of the curve, however, is none of your business and to pursue the solution would be hateful. Luckily the super bowl is this weekend. So, you can cleanse your hateful-adjacent thoughts with some anti-white programming for the whole family!

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they just want to keep bending the curve up because that gives them all they need to continue to hold emergency powers and steal liberties from the american people. look at the replies of those who align with that idiot. they can't wait to bend over backwards.

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They really really need those mail-in ballot rules. Once they secure them, they can drop the covid stuff.

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I remember someone saying a long time ago, "If it's not close they can't cheat." Possibly that's true...elections the last few years have been uncomfortably close and that certainly would make cheating a lot more feasible. If only there could be landslide elections that would wipe them all out once and for all. No more of this 50/50 stuff.

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Election night wasn't that close :/

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The state is their ecclesia, and bad religion can stimulate piety contests among the faithful.

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Why do I dream of all these people being arrested and stuffed into a tiny jail cell together, without masks of course so they would all have panic attacks from the fear of close proximity. Or not!

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According to my 'math' we will be moving into endemic stage by March and then to 'it's almost over by early July....then to it's over by mid October.

All it takes to end the whole thing is an election on the horizon.

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I’m starting to believe the theory out there that the Marxists are trying hard to put a bow on this cluster before the SOTU speech. Joe can claim victory with a timeline back to total normalcy. Aside from the cities and activities (cruising) that enforce mandates most free Americans stopped playing their game almost a year ago.

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Oh I think that is more than a theory at this point. They are already priming the pump. They know it's time to move the narrative and avoid more people becoming aware. Didn't work out as well as they hoped and they want to avoid prosecution. They will have a new plan.

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One senator already has said Biden has finished off the pandemic through his rules and trillions in bills.

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This is likely, IMO. We know the curves will continue to plummet, thanks to spring, so a bunch of states lifting mask rules now can be pointed to as 'proof we can get back to normal'. By the time the sunbelt spike rolls around in the summer, nobody will be paying attention.

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Yes...that pesky election. It's the read Covid killer!

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They did an experiment on this whole thing years back. It was called: The People's Temple Project

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Oh, no, you aren't missing a coefficient at all. The pandemicists published it almost two years ago when they told us "two weeks to flatten the curve", not two weeks to flatten the pandemic. What you're missing is the independent variable of the function that they were using to calculate pandemic duration. Suppose that it's x. Integrate wrt x, then use the result to compute the expected duration as of March 2020.

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Who is Ron Klain?

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White House chief of staff

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Oh another MFS? (Mark-Flunky-Stooge).

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Day 367, just 100 more days and we'll get it done!

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Read the comments. The cultists are horrified. They never want it to end.

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that tweet is a year old

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Cat, please don't mock me too hard when I tell you this, but I completely missed that because I forgot what year it is.

On the other hand, I deserve it. Let 'er rip.

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how about "senility: what are the signs?" as a compromise burn?

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That is an excellent compromise burn.

If I'm going senile at 40 I'm double-plus fucked.

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Positive thinking: if you go senile you qualify for president of the US.

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I was about to say the mountain of shit that is my personal history of statements would never survive vetting but then I realized who I was comparing myself to and couldn't stop laughing.

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Better than double-plus jabbed! 😉

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It's an edge, I'll take it.

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i agree with losing time--it's been like a black hole sucking in time and everything else for that matter. the cultists still don't want it to end--amazing what scared people do...

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deep down inside, they think these rules will keep them from dying...ever

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i believe you're right--go figure!

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Luckily it will never end. Their horror is just what fills the void until the purple Nikes and Kool-Aid can get handed out.

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Feb 10, 2022·edited Feb 10, 2022

It’s a psychiatric disorder called ‘Canute’s Delusion Syndrome’ - CDS. Canute was a 10th Century Anglo-Danish King, Christian and very devout, whose courtiers believed that since he was appointed by God, he must have divine powers and control over Nature. To disabuse them of this, he had his throne set up on the beach and commanded the incoming tide to stop. Of course he didn’t have two weeks just two hours, but in any case everyone got their feet wet. He said: “Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings, for there is none worthy of the name, but He whom heaven, earth, and sea obey by eternal laws.”

Our empty and worthless latter-day kings confident in their own divinity have CDS, therefore believe Nature, be it a virus or the climate system can be bent, curved, flattened, stopped, controlled according to their divine will as supported by their High Priests of The Science™️. Mathematics must do what these coves want… 2 + 2 = 5 as and when they require.

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It keeps appearing to me, again and again, most people would rather not think for themselves. I do wonder why this seems to be true.

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I assume they have no inner monologue

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may be time to move back to Iowa? Or somewhere else? Of course you could wait, because soon California is going to be empty and then you are the only voter to vote for a new governor!

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More like “two years to bend us over”.

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I'd eaplain, but my explanation might be viewed as a terroristic threat.

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Yeah, you're missing a coefficient. You need the coefficient of stupidity to make covidian math work.

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The definition of insanity ....

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Feb 9, 2022·edited Feb 9, 2022

They might as well try to bend spoons.

Of course, math is a white supremacist cis-het sexist chauvinist social construction, so whatever you /feel/ is right as long as you feel what you've been told you should feel, without being told what you should feel.

Ya feel me?

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Your missing of coefficient of stupid fiction.

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We wuz jes thrown a curveball by Joe "Catfish" Biden.

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What we didn't realize - because we didn't scroll down and examine the fine print - is Ron Klaine's 100 days is on auto renew with no expiration date. And bending the curve means constantly changing message. Eventually we will peter out and expire. Then toasts all around the swamp. Hope that fatarse had lots of vaxx.

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Sorry. I am grumpy. I have COVID. Blah.

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gato : what do you make of this study that claims that a greater proportion of unvaxxed canadians are being hospitalized?

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/making-sense-of-the-numbers-greater-proportion-of-unvaccinated-are-being-hospitalized-1.5770226

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It's more of the same, making the statistics say what they want, numbers per million hospitalized without any adjustment for the elderly who are already sick and couldn't be vaccinated (safe and effective!) And claiming there are so many more vaccinated compared to pure bloods that of course there will be more vaccinated!

If course, if the "vaccine" actually worked as in it was sterilizing, there would be almost none of them in the hospital even if 99% of the population were vaccinated.

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I have several things I’d like to flatten.

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