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We get a lesson on saying "follow the science," but not a peep about "I did my research"? Where research = reading two or three websites from quacks. Yeah, nothing smug about that.

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Immediately turning around and taking livestock anti-parasite paste to cure COVID???

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This shows what's going on for the first 30 days.https://webb.nasa.gov/conte...After that is mostly instrument commissioning.

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That’s a whole lotta spin in that Atlantic piece! What assholes are reading that propaganda and thinking, “This guy seems smart and stuff, so I will agree with what he thinks, because that makes me feel smart too!”

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You know, that's pretty smart- if we had told them to eschew the vaccine & fuck off and die from the very beginning, they might've gotten their shots just to spite us...

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From SER...

"I personally am less stressed in cities with high vaccine rates where residents wear masks without a hassle."

From 30 November to 4 December I was not home where, mind you, I feel very safe cause my town and county and state (NY) are doing the right things.My voyages on both a outbound dog and an inbound dog took me to NYC and then to DC. In both cities I did not feel worried at all while on the streets or inside places, as nearly everyone was masked.Mind you I stayed well away from that danged Washington part of town, where I suppose some anti-vaxxers may have been having their usual masturbation rallies (they apparently did have one on my last day in DC, but I didn't hear about it until I was home).

In all the time I was gone, the only times I was a bit apprehensive was when I had to stay overnight in both directions in the Port Authority Bus Terminal in NYC (like from 1AM to 6AM) and that was because of the regular assortment of loonies and drug dealers (do they really think the rest of us DON'T know what they are doing?) that have been a regular feature of the Port Authority since time immemorial, and that the Port Authority cops ignore like they always have.I was easily more worried about catching something yucky from them instead of COVID.

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Well, I think we may HAVE to support endles COVID restrictons for now because these kind of idiots are making it so many are not getting vaccinted and/or wearing masks.

So for this turd who somehow infiltated The Atlantic is one of the REASONS for it, NOT US

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When my kids were toddlers, they had a spectacular wipe-outs running on flat ground, and there was a beat as they decided if they were hurt. Sometimes they weren't hurt, just tired, so they would turn and howl angrily at me, unable to speak in their outrage and tears. But the look they gave me was always a bit astonished, like: How could I have let this happen? Am I not ashamed and sorry?

I wouldn't dare say what I was thinking to my poor, bratty rugrat, but this man is an adult, and he really does know better.

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(My) Life is pain will be short. TIFFY

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Lost all of his penis extenders?

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I'm a longtime monthly-money-paying reader, not a troll.

I wish he was a lil more realpolitik than he's turned out to be.

That's all.

I understand there's a line to be walked when there's morale at stake, but it's frustrating to know that everytime TuckerCarlson and his ilk yell about the Jackboots of Anthony Fauci they get to move the goalposts around whereever they like without getting called on it.

And yes, damn his team for not taking their frothing opponents into account as if they didnt exist. As if there wasn't a boat anchor draging behind the bus.

It's not just frustrating, it's dangerous in government that Democrats hold onto by the skin of our - strike that - Black women's teeth

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Me too, with the abs.

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As a homeschool teacher a mom told me she was gonna "do her own..." you know, cuz she's smarter and different-er than most... doesn't just believe everything she reads. When I pointed out that all her "research" will encompass will be doing more reading of other people's research. That made her mad. Unless you got your own virus lab, you ain't doing no stinking "research".

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Hamid would be telling the astronomers to stop being so dramatic about the death-dealing comet, it's putting off the "Don't Look Up" people.

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The food is good, the cooks and noshers, not so much. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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This is such an easy argument to refute. If the Earth was flat, liberals would have demanded that guardrails and netting be erected along the edges of all the oceans to prevent watercraft from going over the edge, and conservatives would denounce it as a liberal boondoggle, because to complete the project would require the wealthy to pay more in taxes.

In the end, public pressure would force the barrier to be built, and the no-bid contract would have been awarded to a wealthy Republican donor.

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