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Just FYI, Black Agnes is making a well known statistical argument, not being rude to you.

Very true.

Wouldn’t one also need to know the count of troops who were vaccinated? I’m doubting it’s 100%?

Interesting: thank you!

Yes, it’s substantially correct. This type of phrasing is used because of how difficult something is to prove as a fundamental cause - without any doubt - just by seeing them together lots of times.

“Vaccine...interference was significantly associated with...”

This means one cannot PROVE that it was CAUSED BY it, just that the two were observed together more than can be explained by chance...meaning that the vaccine was often observed along with unusually higher than usual levels of coronavirus and of human metapneumovirus.

This phrasing means an observation is being made that they tend to occur together, rather than a smoking gun of proof that one is definitely caused by the other.

This is probably a terrible example because the converse is true, but I hope it helps a little: smoke is more often observed along with fire than can be expected by sheer coincidence, although smoke itself does not CAUSE fire. Cars and drivers usually are observed together, although cars do not cause drivers to come into existence.

+1 :-)

I appreciate your reasoning, and your willingness to sacrifice for others!

I too wear a cloth mask - although I rarely go out of the house - because the governor of our state indicated that’s what he wants. I do it to show a good example, rather than in a belief it will do much good. Who knows...it might help my allergies! ;-)

I use just a cloth mask, because there has been a shortage of PPE for medical personnel, and I’m not sure whether or not that’s completely over. And I don’t want to cause the price to go up, nor do I want the shortages to come back.

But I still don’t want to sit with my family in a restaurant or an airplane yet because the potential consequences of the Wuhan flu can be pretty bad. I recognize that 80% won’t have any problems at all, but if my staying mostly at home will lower the R-nought propagation statistic, then I’ll continue to do it.

:-D

Well, thank you for the correction!

But I feel that crude language devalues the site...

:-D

Sad, but true:

> it’s no longer the america that i’m accustom to.

LOL!!! :-D

Great point!

And your post follows immediately after this quote from “SharpRightTurn”, which I feel is really germane and worth highlighting:

“After all, when there is a violent crime involving a white and a black, 90% of the time a white is the victim and the black is the attacker.”

While I mildly object to the verbiage, (I find the English language is replete with a far more effectual array of choices than the cruder sort exercised here; and you as an author, I feel, would of all people be well equipped to decisively employ it), I heartily agree with your overall highlight of Obama’s falsehoods.

Very good post!

As to your employer, do not for a moment feel that your silence implies your support for their folly.

Even the gospel, in fact, may not be for all:

6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

23 ¶ Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

Exercise your God given freedom of speech; just Wait for the right time, and the right audience. Because freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences, and your employer has a right to decide who he will employ - I just wish that were true evenly, across the board.

I agree with you; but the BLM movement has no fear of God, no respect for eternal truth: there are reports they are burning bibles too.

This doesn’t seem to be reason-based; rather it seems to be envy-based: they want what other people have, but without having to WORK for it.

4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

LOL :-)

Well, to play devil’s advocate (a very difficult role for me to play!), they will probably answer that slavery somehow is the basis for the misery in their lives today.

I think that’s the falsehood we need to attack: historical slavery is not the reason for remaining in poverty.

Also, poverty in the USA is NOT THE SAME as poverty conditions in say, Bangladesh. Not everyone in the world has a electricity and running water in their house, never mind drinkable running water.

But it is hard to become filthy rich honestly, (which is what this movement seems to see as their rightful due - so they feel justified to act dishonestly instead), especially if one starts at the very bottom.

Nevertheless, in some places there do seem to be cases of isolated discrimination, and we need to oppose cases where a manager hires and favors solely people from their own ethnic background - let’s just pick any ethnic group at random and pretend it’s Vietnamese or Indians.

I have personally seen cases where people are discriminated against in the job market due to their being of older age. Any injustice lends a vestige of unfairness that is being exploited. I can totally understand the feelings of resentment, and despair.

But yeah, you’ve hit the nail on the head: These racist blacks just want black lives to matter “more”, for example to the tune of “reparations”.

What can we do about it? What can we do about the real feelings of injustice in some cases?

Truth: thank you!!!

Yes, a handful of black lives really *do* matter. If only our nation would learn from this and completely reject this racist ideology, go back to the dream that all would “color blind”, become unified and wise up - then maybe I could see the loss of material goods and arson as being worthwhile.

But I am in a cold fury over the blinding of federal officers trying to do their job, and over the others maimed and hurt for enforcing the law!

As you say, the interviews have demonstrated that the people behind this have no real respect for history and as you point out, it is a LYING ideology. And it is being used as a cover for covetousness and theft, and to thoughtlessly destroy good things that many have worked hard to build up.

And it is being used to paint the entire USA as being out-of-control, in an attempt to malign the current administration; in an attempt to improperly negatively influence our election process.

Yup! :-)

Yes, that’s exactly what they mean and that’s a very good reply. :-)