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Why would it be absurd to cite political rallies? Surely you can't believe that you couldn't get the virus at a political rally. Are you so conceited to believe that since Trump didn't have a rally in California that people couldn't have transmitted the virus and his many rallies in Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oklahoma etc? I don't know how things have or haven't changed in California. I know around here, indoor dining was not allowed, big box stores and grocery stores had capacity limits and lines in front of them, salons and gyms were closed. Now all that is allowed, with some capacity limits on dining indoors and gyms. I've also noticed an increase in social gatherings in homes and half masking in stores. I'm not surprised that the virus is surging.

From what I've read, social gatherings amongst family and friends, in part caused by Covid fatigue, is the main driving factor behind the current surge. There isn't a single cause, but multiple causes. I heard one mayor saying in his city the driving factor in his city was big box stores and they were working with the stores to limit capacity. Certainly, large numbers of maskless people close together for hours, as was the case for Trump rallies, could be a source of spread for the virus.

Why thank you. Considering the source, I take this as a high compliment.

Is she running around insisting on being called "doctor"? Seems like Joseph Epstein is the one running around and purposely being condescending and insulting kiddo.

So you answered a criticism of whataboutisms with a whataboutism. Nice.

I work with a lot of PhDs. Some insist on being called Doctor and some don't. Jill Biden teaches at a college. As I recall, using the Dr. label in and educational setting is common.

It works to reduce the level of virus to the point where widespread testing coupled with effective contact tracing and responsible quarantines on exposed individuals allows society to continue. Unfortunately, we reduced the amount of virus somewhat and then just opened up without the latter mechanisms in place.

I think there were very few Democrats who boycotted his inauguration or called him illegitimate. Most of their complaints were that he lost the majority vote. At least they had a rational based on democratic norms for those positions. As far as him being impeached, well if he hadn't used taxpayer funds to extort an ally, that wouldn't have happened. The rest just stinks of politics and whining, which Trump and the Trumptards excel at.

Do you only think in terms of death? What about overloading the hospital system? What about longer term consequences of getting the disease. Many people have complications that last months. We don't know if some of the heart issues will be really long term.

So you as a voter could support the candidate that isn't furthest to the left (for Democrats) or right (for Republicans). You can make a decision to look at the man, what he is saying and doing and tuning out the media, left or right. The person holding the office does matter. No former DOD Secretary or Chief of Staff has been as critical of the man they served because Trump is uniquely flawed, largely by his choice.

Jim Mattis on Donald Trump - "Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us," John Kelly on Donald Trump - "The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. The dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship, though it's more pathetic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life," Don't lump Bush or Obama in with Trump.

The fish rots from the head down.

Donald J Trump. However I agree that he really isn't a conservative. He was racking up $1 Trillion deficits per year even before Covid.

You tell me. Transy wrote "The violence these people are talking about right now are solely for the sake of overturning the very foundation of our country: free and fair elections." and you replied "Which they see as neither fair..nor free. " What violence did you think was being talked about. And do think the election was neither fair nor free?

I interpreted what you have said and recreated it as I understood it.

Based on history here, I don't answer people who dodge by avoiding answering my questions. Answer mine and I will answer yours.

So are you saying there was wide spread fraud? Enough to flip the election?

So your excusing violence on their part because of a perceived unfairness. Nice.

Hand recounts of paper ballots verified the results of Dominion machines in Georgia.

Hmmm Kind of looks like the population density of the country. People vote, not land.

Why is that so difficult to believe? As a card carrying member of the cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotting against Donald Trump, you know how easy it is to keep a conspiracy under wraps.

Judge Pepper's used the wrong word in her judgement. She wrote “Granting the relief the plaintiff requests would take the court far outside those limits, and outside the limits of its oath to uphold and defendant the Constitution.” The correct would would be 'defend'. Clearly this is grounds to appeal this directly to the Supreme Court.

I kind of wonder how advanced all these vaccines were when Pfizer offered to sell more. If it was known Pfizer was further along than the others, and since they hit the finish line first, that is a good guess, buying another $100 million doses would have cost $1.5 Billion. This would be about 1.5 B2 Bombers, 0.5 Virginia Class submarines, 0.15% of the current stimulus package being negotiated. A rather paltry sum. Even if all the vaccine candidates worked and we had excess, that wouldn't be bad. The excess could the sold to other countries.

The reason I heard was because they had 5 or 6 candidate vaccines going into trials. They didn't know which ones would work so they diversified and bought quantities of all of them to reduce the risk of an ineffective vaccine. This is not necessarily a bad approach.

With Quantitative Easing?