Flubros and Flubras! Day 325 (a place for Flubros and Flubras)

http://www.freerepublic.com ^ | 25 February 2021 | Impimp

[impimp]

Its just the flu, bro.

Liberties at risk: 1.Right to refuse medicine (a vaccine) 2.Right to not wear protective clothing (a mask) 3.Right to free movement 4.Right to not supply medical records to third parties (vaccine passport or immunity documentation) 5.Right of a parent to decide was is medically best for their children 6.Right of a business to decide who is allowed to be its customer (masks upon entry) 7.Freedom of association (can’t be within 6 feet of someone else)

Additionally, any society who willingly relinquishes fundamental rights unwittingly also demonstrates to tyrants that they are willing to give up other rights in the future. Instead of rights being something that can never be stripped away, rights instead become something that the government can take away without an issue as long as they have a pretense for doing so. And they will always find a pretense.

[IrishBrigade]

‘...and keep them amenable to ridiculous prohibitions on their everyday lives is nothing less than despicable despicable...’

it’s so bad, in fact, it’s doubly despicable...

[MayflowerMadam]

“check yourself daily with the Chinese anal swab.”

He might have been doing that anyhow before it was cool.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

1. !st and 4th Amendment
2. 1st Amendment
3. 1st Amendment, 14th Amendment
4. 4th Amendment, 5th Amendment
5. 4th Amendment
6. 14th Amendment, Interstate Trade clause of the U.S. Constitution.
7. 1st Amendment, 14th Amendment

[maddog55]

And probably before covid just for fun!!

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Media to Fauci: Is the AIDS pandemic under control now that we a curative therapy.
Fauci: It appears that it is. I just wish I could have done more to control the spread.

Questions?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

And, then comes the reach around.
Timing is everything.

[daniel1212]

Threads of interest:

Lying and misleading headlines: "Researchers find face masks don't hinder breathing during exercise:" Science past and present - and common sense (study)

While the media headlines how many Covid-19 (assigned) US deaths there are, which is meaningless as regard who well the country is doing compared with others, I counted 90 other countries being ahead of the US in case fatalities (https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality Toggle case fatality column). Numbering added.

Cases and mortality by country

Country	Confirmed	Deaths	Case-Fatality	Deaths/100K pop.
Yemen	2,176	619	28.4%	2.17
Mexico	2,043,632	180,536	8.8%	143.07
Syria	15,230	1,001	6.6%	5.92
Sudan	30,128	1,871	6.2%	4.48
Egypt	178,774	10,404	5.8%	10.57
Ecuador	274,968	15,547	5.7%	91.00
China	100,784	4,833	4.8%	0.35
Bolivia	243,176	11,470	4.7%	101.03
Afghanistan	55,617	2,433	4.4%	6.55
Liberia	1,996	85	4.3%	1.76
Mali	8,306	348	4.2%	1.82
Bulgaria	238,591	9,933	4.2%	141.41
Tanzania	509	21	4.1%	0.04
Comoros	3,518	144	4.1%	17.30
Zimbabwe	35,862	1,441	4.0%	9.98
Bosnia and Herzegovina	128,661	5,016	3.9%	150.91
Eswatini	16,807	645	3.8%	56.77
Iran	1,582,275	59,572	3.8%	72.83
Guatemala	171,289	6,306	3.7%	36.56
Niger	4,740	172	3.6%	0.77
Chad	3,868	135	3.5%	0.87
Greece	180,672	6,321	3.5%	58.92
Peru	1,283,309	45,097	3.5%	140.98
Hungary	405,646	14,347	3.5%	146.87
Tunisia	228,937	7,811	3.4%	67.54
Italy	2,818,863	95,992	3.4%	158.84
Somalia	6,246	208	3.3%	1.39
Malawi	30,942	1,021	3.3%	5.63
South Africa	1,504,588	49,150	3.3%	85.06
Gambia	4,554	144	3.2%	6.32
Australia	28,937	909	3.1%	3.64
El Salvador	59,235	1,807	3.1%	28.14
North Macedonia	99,408	3,076	3.1%	147.67
United Kingdom	4,138,233	120,988	2.9%	181.97
Belgium	755,594	21,923	2.9%	191.94
Republic of the Congo	25,144	700	2.8%	13.35
Lesotho	10,466	288	2.8%	13.66
Germany	2,399,499	68,363	2.8%	82.44
Nicaragua	6,398	172	2.7%	2.66
Indonesia	1,288,833	34,691	2.7%	12.96
Algeria	112,094	2,964	2.6%	7.02
Belize	12,255	314	2.6%	81.97
Poland	1,642,658	42,188	2.6%	111.08
Colombia	2,229,663	58,974	2.6%	118.78
Senegal	33,099	814	2.5%	5.13
Mauritania	17,110	435	2.5%	9.88
Canada	854,190	21,720	2.5%	58.61
Romania	781,329	19,894	2.5%	102.16
Chile	803,009	20,126	2.5%	107.46
Argentina	2,069,751	51,359	2.5%	115.43
Angola	20,548	499	2.4%	1.62
Honduras	165,737	4,024	2.4%	41.97
Kosovo	66,480	1,572	2.4%	85.19
Brazil	10,195,160	247,143	2.4%	117.99
Myanmar	141,761	3,197	2.3%	5.95
Antigua and Barbuda	614	14	2.3%	14.54
France	3,669,354	84,764	2.3%	126.54
Croatia	240,017	5,449	2.3%	133.25
Pakistan	573,384	12,658	2.2%	5.96
Guyana	8,427	189	2.2%	24.26
Slovakia	292,792	6,577	2.2%	120.75
Philippines	563,456	12,094	2.1%	11.34
Bahamas	8,471	179	2.1%	46.42
Moldova	177,407	3,799	2.1%	107.14
Liechtenstein	2,550	54	2.1%	142.44
Spain	3,153,971	67,636	2.1%	144.76
San Marino	3,494	72	2.1%	213.11
Sierra Leone	3,857	79	2.0%	1.03
Haiti	12,309	247	2.0%	2.22
Iraq	671,801	13,295	2.0%	34.59
Paraguay	152,658	3,080	2.0%	44.28
Russia	4,130,447	82,255	2.0%	56.93
Ukraine	1,354,545	26,531	2.0%	59.46
Sweden	631,166	12,649	2.0%	124.21
Portugal	798,074	16,023	2.0%	155.84
Slovenia	185,014	3,784	2.0%	183.03
Suriname	8,869	169	1.9%	29.34
Latvia	81,793	1,546	1.9%	80.25
Ireland	215,743	4,137	1.9%	85.24
Austria	446,644	8,397	1.9%	94.91
Armenia	170,506	3,167	1.9%	107.29
South Korea	87,681	1,573	1.8%	3.05
Kenya	104,306	1,827	1.8%	3.55
Japan	425,725	7,541	1.8%	5.96
Trinidad and Tobago	7,682	139	1.8%	10.00
Jamaica	21,679	399	1.8%	13.60
Morocco	481,263	8,559	1.8%	23.76
Switzerland	550,224	9,907	1.8%	116.33
United States	28,188,571	500,244	1.8%	152.9
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[daniel1212]

Tragic though mainly due to lack of fitness and poor health. 70% of Americans are overweight or obese [https://ourworldindata.org/obesity] and more than 77 percent of 17,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the United States had excess weight or obesity. [https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.17.20156265v3] And the CDC reports, that "for 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 3.8 additional conditions or causes per death,” evidently meaning such patients would have lived if they did not get Covid. However, this is a presumption.

Also, the CDC criteria for classifying “presumed” COVID19 cases is very broad even based upon a cough or shortness of breath plus living in an area with a sustained community transmission.

Moreover, there can be some possible financial motivation influencing deaths being assigned to Covid-19. For under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act through a Medicare 20% add-on, USA Today affirmed that,

Hospitals and doctors do get paid more for Medicare patients diagnosed with COVID-19 or if it's considered presumed they have COVID-19 absent a laboratory-confirmed test, and three times more if the patients are placed on a ventilator to cover the cost of care and loss of business resulting from a shift in focus to treat COVID-19 cases.[93]

[daniel1212]

Extensive stats here by the grace of God.

[impimp]

Yes but if the penumbra of the constitution implies that these things aren’t really rights and that we have all had wrongthink about the constitution, then does it matter? There is always the fear that the Supreme Court “rewrites” the constitution.

[MayflowerMadam]

“And probably before covid just for fun!!”

Well, I WAS going to post that, too, but deleted it before posting. ;)

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Hey, the Senate voted on the relevancy of the Constitution to hold an impeachment trial.
They voted that the Constitution did not apply to their specific instance.

So, about those guns....

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Oh, and the point of my post is that plain, everyday Americans are simply giving up their enumerated rights due to...what...”liberty fatigue”?

Assert your rights
Just
Don’t
Comply

[who knows what evil?]

Liberty is a risk, and many prefer not to take that risk.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Which means they would be perfectly happy in the gulags.
Can I ask a liberal to take my place, provided I can convince /xit/ of the benefits?
:-)

[who knows what evil?]

2020 has taught a lot of people to disrespect the medical community.

I have never had much respect for the medical community, but this past year has really driven that point home for my wife and I. Take EVERYTHING they say with a grain of salt, especially the younger ones.

[DugwayDuke]

Skywise wrote: “Now that the AMA has approved HCQ...”

“While a change in its position toward hydroxychloroquine was considered, the American Medical Association rejected the proposal.”

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/verify/ama-stance-hydroxy-covid-unchanged/507-76cac7cc-bd0d-4c21-8771-06949c2220ae

This has been disproved so many times yet some persist in posting again and again.

[Buttons12]

The legal proceedings will go on for generations, like Jarndyce and Jarndyce.

[mrsmith]

https://twitter.com/youyanggu/status/1364627872233750543
“Sort of” good news for “just the flu” people.

He’s been the best modeler of the disease by far. Widely praised by all.
He predicts all restrictions will be unjustifiable by this Summer. Maybe sooner.

[USS Alaska]

kojak, you POS, you know these are worldmeter numbers that are left wing bullshit fiction.

Their charts show the remaining barrels of oil and the remaining cubic yards of natural gas, which they post as factual.

As a person that once was a member of a semi-respected profession, you are truly a disappointment to your mother.

She would disown you, and ax you to change your name.

Shame.