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The leftists changed their preferred lingo from “global warming” to “climate change” a few years ago, so we can’t say we didn’t have fair warning that the whole green push was complete b.s.

The leftists changed their preferred lingo from “global warming” to “climate change” a few years ago, so we can’t say we didn’t have fair warning that the whole green push was complete b.s.

You’re right. Iowa is close to herd immunity now. Once a state reaches one case in every ten residents, the new infection rate starts to fall. Iowa peaked way back in mid-November and is now seeing cases occur at mid-September rates, and falling steadily.

And yet, people rail against the Governor giving people back free choice again. Sad. But that’s the effect that constant propagandizing has on those with uncritical minds, and boy are they being propagandized.

Easy answer: We’re rapidly approaching herd immunity. The Dakotas were the early indicators. Once they reached a level of one in ten residents being diagnosed with Covid, their new case level started trending down. Neither state had a post-Christmas increase in cases, nor a post-Thanksgiving increase for that matter.

That made sense because even Fauci has said that the actual cases are probably six to eight times the reported cases, so when first ND and then SD went over one reported case for every ten residents, that would indicate that 60-80% of the residents had already contracted Covid. Since mid-November new cases have dropped dramatically in both states.

Note that both states avoided severe lockdowns, allowing Covid to progress normally through the population and achieving herd immunity early. State that locked down just prolonged the inevitable. Now it appears that the entire country is on the way to herd immunity. But the Biden administration now wants us to double-mask and continue social distancing for the foreseeable future.

P.S. If you read my past posts, I’ve been saying since early November that we should be watching ND and SD.

It’s a trial. In a trial, there’s a defense team.

What are the odds that this guy was recruited by anti-Trump elements of the FBI, and then directed to get a group of right wingers worked up? Then he’s pulled out before Jan 6th? If that were the case, was he the only one recruited?

I say let’s go ahead with the impeachment trial. Maybe some interesting stuff will come out.

Dumb headline. What “overwhelming revenge”?

>>How would you word it to make it NOT misleading?<<

Duh! Print what he actually said, not a misleading portion of his sentence.

He actually said “People thought that what I said was totally inappropriate.”

Well, lots of people thought he was a dictator too. Do you see a difference between “People said I was a dictator” and “I was a dictator.”

>>If you look at the trend it appears that Ohio regionally is at herd immunity.<<

Hardly. They might be approaching herd immunity, but being “at herd immunity” implies that no new cases are arising because everyone who has it is surrounded by those who already have immunity. When they’re over it, it’s done with.

That’s clearly not the case yet in Ohio.

Ohio’s cases were trending upward until about Dec 12-13. Since then, they’ve peaked and are headed downward (in terms of new cases per day.)

So the Governor was right to be concerned in mid-December and the newspaper is right now in pointing out that the peak has passed.

Sometimes there are no bad guys in the story.

Given these facts (at least I think they’re factual):

1. Vitamin D deficiency makes one more susceptible to Covid;
2. Most recent immigrants in Sweden came from African nations;
3. Dark-skinned people experience serious vitamin D shortfalls when they move to northern climates unless they take suitable measures to counteract it.

It’s not at all surprising that immigrants in Sweden are over-represented in ICU’s today.

At just after the 4 hour 46 minute mark, a new guy steps in and states that (offsite) the people he’s working with have gotten into the polling device (one of them anyway) and that the communication goes both ways, data in and data out (although he didn’t use the word “data”) He said that should never happen.

The headline to this post is misleading in that it’s a guy stating that someone offsite is in the election system electronically. He’s not actually doing it in front of the committee, just explaining it.

All this talk about the death rate in the comments misses the real point: herd immunity.

As I wrote elsewhere, some of the states that avoided the worst of the lockdowns, especially the Dakotas, might already be approaching herd immunity, and their recent case counts (which are declining) bear that out (although N. Dakota today had a significant one-day spike in cases.)

I’ve been assuming 5x and here’s the CDC saying it could be 7x. Both Dakotas have total cases at one in every ten residents, so if it’s 7x then 70% of their population has had it, and it’s fair to assume that virtually everyone except the severely secluded have already been exposed. It will be interesting watching their progress over the next month.

Meanwhile the locked-down states are still seeing rising case loads, indicating that all their draconian measures did is prolong the inevitable while bankrupting their small businesses.

>>How do you debunk a security cam video of a crime?..............<<

Easy. For a good example, go to google and put in “video of Georgia election fraud”. The “Top Videos” are all about debunking the video. Of course, those are directed at earlier videos, but it works for most people (to deceive them, that is.) To get access to the full 15-20 minutes from the hearing, try duckduckgo.

>>How does he know who they voted for?<<

Two points: First, they might be registered with a party.

But the main point is that if they can show it was a fraudulent election and that the fraud was of sufficient scope to affect the result, regardless whether it actually did, a judge could throw out the result and decide upon a remedy. That could be a do-over in certain precincts, or the whole state, or toss it to the legislature to decide on the electors.

That said, I’m skeptical that they’ll have the evidence, even though I think this election was stolen.

>>100% of military votes going to Biden is not only unlikely, it is also a statistical impossibility.<<

It also probably didn’t happen. I’m sorry, but Gateway Pundit seems to be a clearing house for outrageous fraud stories.

Assuming military ballots are distinguishable from ballots cast locally, this would be ridiculously easy to prove. Some stories are just too good to be true, like this one.

And if they are instead indistinguishable, did a GOP poll watcher witness the opening of 900 military ballots and then get to see how each of those voters actually voted?

Doesn’t matter though. Now this will be added to the pile of stories that are so nonsensical that they convince the average person the whole fraud claim is nothing but that, a claim without evidence.

And for the record, I think Biden’s team stole this election.

So you don’t get sick of misleading headlines. That’s fine.

But I do.

No, it’s Gateway Pundit, purveyor of misleading headlines, but they do draw clicks.

If that’s true, one state is over Covid, North Dakota.

So far, per worldometer’s numbers, ND has had one case of Covid for every ten residents. In other words, everyone there has now had it, or was exposed and is naturally immune.

In fact, the recent acceleration of cases in ND has ended and is now trending downward. If herd immunity has been reached in ND, then the expected Thanksgiving bump will not occur. Worth watching to see what happens.

>>MLW” is clearly the person who issued the ballot, not the voter.

It says so right on the ballot.<<

Ah, finally, someone commenting on the article itself.

For me, it was the lamest excuse for an article I’ve seen since the election. Absolutely no support for the headline in the entire (short) article. (Well, except for the pictures that explained nothing either, and as you pointed out are at best misleading.)

And yet we have 93 comments and counting.