On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 11:20 PM spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
*>we have tons of unvaxed people entering the country* Tons? Well, I know right wingers such as yourself like to blame all the nation's problems on those damned infernal foreigners, especially those that have a slightly different hue to their skin color than themselves, but the fact is the reason the epidemic in the USA didn't end several months ago is because of MEGATONS of Trump's hillbilly supporters refuse to get vaccinated even though it's scientifically shown to be safe and effective and it's easy to get and it's free. *> Fauci is not helpful in his CDC mission. For instance last year he said > he change the percentage of what it would take to reach national immunity > because the felt it would make us feel bad. He said at the time 75%, when > he calculated it to be 90%.* Unlike dimwit politicians like Trump, scientists change their mind when more information becomes available. When Dr. Fauci said in early November that "about 75%" would be needed to reach herd immunity, most epidemiologists and the World Health Organization were saying "60 to 70%". About a month later Dr. Fauci upped his estimate and was saying "75, 80, 85 percent pluss". He said he changed his estimate because it became clear that COVID-19 was more infectious than originally thought, it's about as infectious as measles, and because before he didn't feel comfortable telling the entire world what his gut feeling was until he was more certain he was correct and could back up his feeling with some science, and because he didn't think the country was ready to hear what he really thought. And when Dr. Fauci said "the country" I'm pretty sure it was a euphemism for Donald J Trump, because Trump had already come within about a nanometer of firing him and replacing him with a Trump quack like Dr. Scott Atlas, and then we'd be in REALLY deep shit. And in retrospect it's now clear the Dr. Fauci was right, or at least less wrong than anybody else; 70% of the nation has been vaccinated but there is no sign of herd immunity, now most think 90% is the correct figure, that's the number rthat is equired for measles and COVID-19 is about as infectious as measles. *>Just tell us the truth.* Why on earth would telling the truth increase your liking of someone?? You *love* Donald Trump and yet he might as well have the words " I AM A LIAR '' tattooed on his forehead. Trump told 30,573 public lies during his 4 year administration (the number of lies he told in private is unknown); so assuming Trump didn't lie when he was sleeping that means that on average Trump publicly spoke or tweeted a lie every 46 minutes of his waking life during his 4 year presidency. Trump told 30,573 public lies during his presidency <https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/> John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> y0u -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3qZ0rxKpF9ZeTu-LaBrH5YQHB2NTTof-0Ly6MPBZGZ%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com.
