The key ingredients of an effective pandemic response — communication, trust and a shared sense of threat — are slowly dwindling. This can lead to social strife and will make it harder for leaders to steer their populations out of the crisis.
For two years people have debated the value of masks, vaccine passports and more, to the point that they are no longer opinions but identities. And when opinions become identities, they warp our understanding and make it harder to change one’s mind as the situation changes. The truth is that we are all biased. For example, research shows that in the United States, Republicans tend to overrate the risks of getting vaccinated, and Democrats tend to overrate the risks from the disease…
For people who have been highly vigilant about Covid-19, the end of the pandemic could end up feeling like defeat. At some point, it will be time to lift restrictions and lower the guards. The people they’ve been debating about masks or whether the crisis is improving will then be right. It won’t be because this position was always correct, but because the circumstances have changed.
I mean you look it this now and you will what once was a bit of virtue signaling has become an out and out way of life. Watch what is happening with this whole Spotify Joe Rogan situation and you literally see artists willing to sabotage their own careers over what they "believe" to be disinformation, which is actually little more than disagreement. There is nothing that Rogan has stated about Ivermectin or many other subjects that are not 100% backed by studies. Perhaps not the studies that some people want to follow, but who is to say which studies are right and which studies are wrong?
To say that some of these people (Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, etc) have allowed this entire thing to start to define their identities is an understatement. Look at how many people still drive down the road, alone in their cars, wearing a paper or cloth mask even as more and more evidence suggest that those masks simply do not work in general. Do they really believe that these masks provide anything for someone driving alone in their car or are they just insane?
Does anyone believe that these people can just "let go" of this virtue signaling once these mandates and recommendations cease to exist? It may not be a question of when, but literally a question of "if" they can ever let go. I mean, what will some of these people be if they cannot wear a mask while alone and look down on someone else not following suit? Where will they fall when it is no longer a scientific recommendation, much less a consensus? What will they become when the vast majority of people go back to just living their lives and they are stuck putting on a paper mask and worrying about that six foot social distancing that nobody else is following. Where will all the rage go when they can no longer demand that doctors not treat people who do not follow their own beliefs on the subject?
The time is coming. I already personally know people here in Seattle who have openly stated that they are going to be wearing a mask indefinitely, Covid or not. They have convinced themselves that there is good to be had from those paper masks, even if there is no actually evidence there is. Whether they are going to be willing to live and let live on the subject is a whole other can of worms. I suspect many of them will be lost without a solid justification to be angry at everyone else.
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Does anyone believe that these people can just "let go" of this virtue signaling once these mandates and recommendations cease to exist?
Of course not, but that's only because the left is addicted to virtue signaling. It's hard coded into their DNA. It defines their very existence, who they are and what they do- how they conduct themselves.
The latest - Black female USSC justice candidate? Virtue signaling.
The left can't escape it and cannot survive without it.
When we have a president and 1st lady who still walk outside across a big empty field wearing masks and a federal government that says mandates will continue, it's not surprising that their lemmings will do the same.
CH:
There is nothing that Rogan has stated about Ivermectin or many other subjects that are not 100% backed by studies.
BS
CH: Perhaps not the studies that some people want to follow, but who is to say which studies are right and which studies are wrong?
ANSWER:
Those that are not done by "scientists" who are really shills of the pharaceutical manufacturers.
Ch says:
I already personally know people here in Seattle who have openly stated that they are going to be wearing a mask indefinitely, Covid or not. They have convinced themselves that there is good to be had from those paper masks, even if there is no actually evidence there is.
I SAY:
I only know that I have gone without having even a cold for the longest time in my entire life, and I have decided that I will never return to the practice of shaking hands, which is one of the quickest ways to spread bacteria of all kinds.
Have you ever know of three more afraid of their own shadow "men" as Alky, James and Dennis?
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YET, the election draws near and Biden n the Socialist are failing, so , as Roger proclaimed " the virus is over".
Yesterday I went into a supermarket and had forgotten to wear my mask. When I realized that, I decided not to walk all the way back to my car to get one.
Nearly everyone else, all sales people and almost all customers were wearing masks, and only a few were, like me, maskless. Nobody spoke harshly to me and I don't think I even got any hard looks.
The next time I go there, I will not forget my mask. It is one of the statements of decency and respect and sense of responsibility for others I prefer to continue to make.
Omg, get of the cross James.
I remember, Ch, when you and your wife went to a restaurant in Seattle and made fun of people who early on were saying they thought the emerging virus was a very serious matter.
Now that we are approaching (though more slowly) nearly a million Covid related deaths, do you suppose that they were right and you were wrong?
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The mask was always ineffective.
It was politically powerfull.
Ignore your mind Scott
Twice in our history we have had two parties designed to break up the country into multiple countries.
The Democratic party in 1882, and the Republicans of this generation.
In the last week, more and more evidence has emerged about how far Trump was willing to go to stay in power.
New documents uncovered by the January 6 Select Committee show that Trump came dangerously close to issuing executive orders directing the U.S. military and Department of Homeland Security to seize voting machines in key states in an attempt to cook up phony evidence of election fraud.11
Then, on Sunday, he pledged to issue pardons to January 6 white supremacist rioters if needed to prevent their prosecution, and he made his most direct statements yet claiming that former Vice President Mike Pence could have "overturned the election" by blocking certification of the Electoral College result.12
Trump's plot was stopped only when courageous state and local officials refused to do his bidding. But next time, if Trump is successful in installing his cronies to these offices, we might not be so lucky.
And he actually said the he incited the Insurrection.
Mitch brown is attempting to be the next Barry Goldwater, but Trump doesn't care about anything because himself.
Nixon knew how dangerous it was..
But enablers like you are traitors
Mitch brown is attempting to be the next Barry Goldwater, but Trump doesn't care about anything because himself.
The alky just puked a whole bucket of stupid all over this post and I have no idea what this means.
"Mitch Brown?"
"Because himself?"
Go have your jello alky...
Oh and alky, you wouldn't be locked down with a bunch of fucking crazy people if you weren't just as nuts as they are.
The time is coming. I already personally know people here in Seattle who have openly stated that they are going to be wearing a mask indefinitely, Covid or not. They have convinced themselves that there is good to be had from those paper masks, even if there is no actually evidence there is. Whether they are going to be willing to live and let live on the subject is a whole other can of worms. I suspect many of them will be lost without a solid justification to be angry at everyone else.
And I appreciate these folks. As society devolves and we swirl down the shitter of 'woke' on the way to the septic tank of 'Idiocracy', the chronically stupid and the truly insane could be harder to identify.
Signals like masking for no good reason at all are helpful for us normals.
When I see a person driving alone in a car fully masked, I give that person a wide berth because I know that I'm in the presence of 'full retard.' The truly, perhaps criminally insane. And like the alky exploding into a rage and beating the living shit out of Lydia for no good reason at all, you just don't know when you're in the presence of someone just as fucked in the head.
The Democratic party in 1882, and the Republicans of this generation.
Alky…..
What’s the point so much for a history expert.
Fucking idiot
BTW dumbfuck the War of Northern Aggression started in 1861
New York Gov. 'Cuomo with Tits' Kathy Hochul decides to EXTEND the state’s mask mandate for schools
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/02/08/new-york-gov-kathy-hochul-decides-to-extend-the-states-mask-mandate-for-schools/
Alky…..
What’s the point so much for a history expert.
Fucking idiot
BTW dumbfuck the War of Northern Aggression started in 1861
The alky would have us believe that the 5th Beatle is the crazy one...
Those that are not done by "scientists" who are really shills of the pharaceutical manufacturers.
You mean like the fact that the only drug the United States seems interested in treating people with is the "new one" from Pfizer that will make a lot of people millions?
Ivermectin is an existing drug that is cheap and nobody is making any money off that. The studies in question are not from pharmaceuticals, but from the CDC equivalent from other Countries.
Cultist like Scott don't agree with him anymore
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) criticized the Republican National Committee for its censure of Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Liz Cheney (R-WY) for serving on the House Select Committee to investigate the January 6 Capitol riots, The Hill reports.
Said McConnell: “It was a violent insurrection with the purpose of trying to prevent peaceful transfer of power. That’s what it was.”
McConnell also noted that traditionally “the view of the national party committee is that we support all members of our party, regardless of their position on some issue.”
So...
DHS has declared a full frontal assault on the first amendment...
The proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions.
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You mean like the fact that the only drug the United States seems interested in treating people with is the "new one" from Pfizer that will make a lot of people millions?
JUST IN - #Pfizer forecasts $54 billion coronavirus-related sales in 2022 from its Covid vaccine and anti-viral pill.
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The crazyheartetruth
USAID Gave $4.67 Million Grant to Wuhan Lab Collaborator EcoHealth Alliance LAST FALL
By Debra Heine
February 8, 2022
AUnited States government agency was still doling out millions of taxpayer dollars to the scandal-plagued EcoHealth Alliance as late as October of 2021, long after it became known that the Peter Daszak-led operation had funneled federal grant money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct risky gain-of-function research.
The Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded a $4.67 million five-year grant to EcoHealth Alliance in late 2021. A group of 26 House Republicans have sent a letter to USAID Administrator Samantha Power demanding answers.
“[We are] deeply concerned by this award given EcoHealth and Dr. Daszak’s troubling record of failing to report findings from federally funded research, refusing to cooperate with congressional oversight of federal funding awarded to the organization, and collaborating with the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” the lawmakers wrote.
“USAID’s decision to award EcoHealth Alliance additional federal funding is misguided and deeply concerning,” Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., said in a statement to Fox News.
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“EcoHealth used money from their last federal grant to fund dangerous, gain-of-function coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology before the pandemic,” Reschenthaler added.
EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak worked closely with Wuhan lab “bat lady” Shi Zhengli, sending the CCP controlled Wuhan lab U.S. government funding. Beginning in March of 2020, Daszak reportedly orchestrated “a behind-the-scenes bullying campaign” to make sure the Covid-19 outbreak was not linked to the Wuhan lab. Daszak got more than two dozen other scientists to sign off on the letter he wrote to the highly respected British medical journal, The Lancet, dismissing the lab leak hypothesis as “extremely unlikely.”
Last November, Republican leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the National Academy of Medicine asking them to investigate Daszak for misconduct, saying Daszak’s actions “may violate the NAM Code of Conduct and warrant urgent action.”
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Issues of concern cited by the Republican leaders—led by Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.)—included “Daszak’s refusal to answer Congressional requests for answers to questions relevant to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, Daszak’s failure to properly report his financial ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), Daszak’s leading role in shutting down all scientific discussion about the lab leak theory, presumably to avoid oversight of risky research his group funded at the WIV, Daszak’s refusal to cooperate with the scientific community and his unwillingness to share information relevant to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Daszak’s repeated inaccurate statements about his group’s work at the WIV and numerous official representations to NIH that are contradicted by documentation.”
Fauci’s NIAID funded the New York-based research nonprofit with annual grants through 2020 for “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.”
I remember, Ch, when you and your wife went to a restaurant in Seattle and made fun of people who early on were saying they thought the emerging virus was a very serious matter.
You mean my wife with the preexisting conditions that made her susceptible to Covid? The one who was first in line to get vaccinated and who from day one has been ordering and wearing KN95 masks? The one who relentlessly was on me to get vaccinated as early as possible? The one who did contact it anyways and had to get an inhaler and different medications, because the asthma (that she had gotten rid of with massive exercise and good health) had come back with the Covid?
I am not sure I know anyone who has taken Covid as seriously as she does.
But glad you remember something completely different about my wife (whom you actually recently forgot was Korean) and I. You have a memory like a steal trap.... only it's just very short and not very accurate.
The actual story was that my wife and I happened to have dinner reservations at a restaurant that we had been wanting to go to. We went on a Sunday night (per our reservations) and that Monday (the next day) was when everything went on lockdown here in Washington. Washington (btw) was one of the first (if not the first state) to lock down. It was a matter of coincidence that our reservations landed on that day. The only thing that made the story interesting.
Conspiracy Anonymous sources said.
Perhaps the most important long-term fallout of the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic has been the exposure of the venality and politicization within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as well as other federal health agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Nothing personifies this corruption more than the FDA’s absurdly close ties to the pharmaceutical companies. Thus, their refusal to recognize proven inexpensive therapeutics and their unorthodox approach in licensing certain Pfizer and Moderna mRNA Covid-19 -- vaccines that are not offered for sale in the United States.
What was the FDA’s and the pharmaceutical companies’ endgame in this process? Was it to gaslight the American people in order to sell vaccines and achieve mass vaccinations? Was their motive to protect the pharmaceutical companies from exposure to liability and a tsunami of litigation? Was it so the FDA could more easily approve these vaccines for children who are not at risk of Covid-19? Or all the above?
In August of 2021, the FDA, to great media fanfare, granted permanent approval for a Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. The catch: it was for a vaccine that was not available to Americans. What the FDA approved and licensed is Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine, not the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine that has been continuously in use under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) since December of 2020. Manufacturers of medicines sold under an EUA are immunized from legal liability.
The FDA decreed that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine should remain unlicensed and under the EUA but can be used interchangeably with the licensed Comirnaty vaccine. More importantly, the FDA stated that the Comirnaty vaccine and the existing vaccine are “legally distinct” and that there are slight differences in the vaccines, though their differences “do not impact safety or effectiveness.”
Moreover, the FDA acknowledged that there was no inventory of the Comirnaty vaccine available. Nearly six months later there is still no inventory available and will not be in the foreseeable future. Every vaccination with a Pfizer covid vaccine has been and continues to be with the one under the EUA.
Not to leave Moderna out in the cold, the FDA on January 31, 2022, granted permanent approval for a Moderna mRNA covid-19 vaccine. But not the one in continual use since December of 2020 under the authorization of an EUA. This approval was for Moderna’s Spikevax Covid-19 vaccine.
Not surprisingly, the FDA in its approval letter to Moderna also stated that the vaccine under the EUA can be used interchangeably with the licensed Spikevax vaccine and that Spikevax and Moderna’s EUA approved vaccine are “legally distinct” but their differences “do not impact safety or effectiveness.”
It was fake from day one on February 7th when he started Warp speed just to keep the MSM censored M
But the coldheartedtruthblog.blogspot told the truth.
For decades the American far right has depended on conspiracy theories to explain why the nation keeps adopting progressive policies of which they disapprove.
Sen. Joseph McCarthy famously argued in 1951 that the World War II hero Gen. George C. Marshall, who had been both Harry Truman’s secretary of state and then secretary of defense, had made decisions that helped the Soviet Communists in their drive to dominate the world. McCarthy did not go as far as branding Marshall a traitor, but he did charge that Marshall—a great war hero who helped lead the planning of D-Day and had been Time Magazine’s Man of the Year in 1943—led “a conspiracy so immense and an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous venture in the history of man.”
Were old Joe McCarthy still with us he would be in awe of the lengths to which Donald Trump and his GOP and “conservative” lackeys have gone to discredit their perceived Democratic enemies. Each day Trump ups the ante by openly seeking the help of foreign governments (Russia, Ukraine and now China) to take action to destroy his main political rival in 2020, former Vice-President Joe Biden.
The Daily Beast described you Scott Joseph McCarthy..
No one wants Trump. He’s fading faster than Sarah Palin did — and she was second place on a losing presidential ticket. In case you don’t remember, for three years following that loss, Palin was packing stadiums with tens of thousands of Trump-like fans.
But by 2011, even she — a far smarter politician than Trump who did not spend her time whining about the last election, wallowing in self-pity or endorsing candidates because they once said something nice about her golf course — had faded. She was fun, but Republicans were starting to think seriously about the 2012 presidential election.
Trump is already two years ahead of Palin’s fade-out schedule. After his petulant endorsements this year deliver loss after loss in midterm elections that ought to be a blowout landslide for the GOP, he’ll be as popular as former Missouri Rep. Todd Akin.
As many Republicans will bitterly recall, Trump has already lost two Senate seats for Republicans in the 2021 Georgia runoffs. So far this year, he’s on track to lose — at least — another Senate race in Georgia, as well as the governor’s mansion.
Sure, thousands of people show up to his heavily advertised rallies, but they’re all the exact same people. His die-hard fans — or, as he calls them, “future Trump University students” — are like Deadheads, following him from venue to venue, dressing up in wild costumes and listening to the same songs.
Some conservatives who would never again vote for Trump wear MAGA hats, but that’s just an identity badge, like liberals wearing masks. Trump happens to be the last Republican president, and the media lose their minds over him. Wearing a “Trump” hat is the most efficient way to say, “Screw you, media.”
This is why the media’s neurotic fixation on Trump is baffling to normal people. TV hosts keep telling us that Trump is wildly popular — the 2024 nomination is his for the asking! — but facts on the ground suggest otherwise.
It turns out the media are using a sleight of hand to claim that Trump is popular with Republicans.
Nate Silver’s respected website fivethirtyeight recently announced: “Republicans remain loyal to Trump even after Jan. 6 attack,” citing a poll that shows Trump’s approval among Republicans at nearly 80%.
But there’s a lot more to the story. The poll allows readers to view Trump’s approval not only among all voters (-14%) but among specific subgroups of all voters: men, women, Blacks, Hispanics and whites, as well as any combination of these demographic subgroups. And get this: Trump doesn’t have as much as 25% net approval among any subgroup — other than “Republicans.”
Females have a negative 24% net favorable opinion of Trump. OK, fine, women don’t like him. Show me “men.” Men have a negative 3% net favorable opinion of Trump. That’s pretty much a full set. Who’s left?
I tried whites — the base of the Republican Party (and the demographic that decides every election, despite the unshakable beliefs of GOP donors). Whites have a meager 4% net favorable opinion of Trump.
We’re running out of demographics that might like Trump.
Maybe it was that massive Hispanic vote for Trump that I’ve been hearing so much about! Hispanics: negative 44% net favorable for Trump. Blacks? Negative 85% net favorable.
White men? Fourteen percent net favorable opinion of Trump. (That’s not even going to win you Alabama, Republicans.)
Non-college graduates? Negative 12% net favorable.
How about non-college-educated white men? The beating heart of the Trump base is only 23% net favorable toward Trump.
So how is it possible that 77% of “Republicans” — net — have a favorable opinion of Trump? There’s no other subgroup of the electorate that has even a third of that.
The only explanation is that an awful lot of Republicans are now calling themselves “Independents.”
Huh. Why might that be?
Maybe it’s because, day in, day out, the media tell us that the GOP is “the Party of Trump”! Apparently, this has led a lot of Republicans to conclude that they must not be Republicans, after all. (At least, among the Republicans contacted by these pollsters. I assume they didn’t have any respondents in Florida, where “Republican” has a much more favorable connotation.)
Thanks to the media’s lies, the only people calling themselves “Republicans” these days are the Trump die-hards. In other words, the blockbuster conclusion of this poll is: Trump die-hards like Trump!
Yes — and they’re the only ones who do. While Trump fanatics are indeed fanatical, everyone else is sick and tired of his nonsense.
Give voters a populist conservative who’s not a conman and a liar and they’ll be “Republicans” again. No wonder Trump hates DeSantis.
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Nothing personifies this corruption more than the FDA’s absurdly close ties to the pharmaceutical companies. Thus, their refusal to recognize proven inexpensive therapeutics and their unorthodox approach in licensing certain Pfizer and Moderna mRNA Covid-19 -- vaccines that are not offered for sale in the United States.
What is your problem with this statement Roger?
Seems perfectly intuitive based on the fact that nearly every country in the world is allowing these cheap drugs to be used, while our FDA and CDC waited for a "new" drug to be manufactured by Pfizer before approving of any treatment?
Can you actually explain (without just calling it crazy like an idiot) why so many other countries approved these cheap treatments (that have proven successful) while our powers to be have fought to undermine them?
Or are you just a fucking idiot who cannot explain your way out of a wet paper bag?
This is why the media’s neurotic fixation on Trump is baffling to normal people.
You mean like how Roger's neurotic fixation on Trump is baffling the rest of us normal people here?
Cue Roger saying something like
You are crazy!
You lost it!
Get help!
or something that proves he had no actual argument.
I am also curious Roger...
If Trump is so unpopular, why is he polling ahead of Biden, Clinton, and Harris in the hypothetical 2024 matchup? Are these Democrats even more toxic?
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