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The obsession and anger towards Trump; tells you everything. They are threatened and continue to be so.

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Reposting from another stack to hear views: How does one counter the ‘but variants’ narrative? I’ve heard from so many believers that everything - masks, lockdowns, vaccines would have worked but for variants.

When I point out that vaccine evading variants can only exist if there’s a vaccine - I get blank looks

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The NYT relying on cherry-picked data? No way.

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Don’t forget to mention the age difference of the average voters per candidate. The under 30 crowd voted heavily against Trump.

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Well, our own government endorses a diet that is unhealthy at best, will kill you at worst...

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It's almost like a for-profit medical system contributes to ill health--almost. (And no I'm not for single-payer in this country, because they will not curtail the profits. They will simply bankrupt the entire country to keep one small group of people wealthy and nothing will improve for patients.)

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Wait...doesn't NYC account for a hugely disproportionate amount of total US covid deaths...????

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Everything you said PLUS Trump voters (and Republicans in general) skew older, and older people are at greater risk of dying (from COVID, the flu, any number of things) so the chart is meaningless unless you factor in all the demographic information. ... On another note, I had never seen that health care spending chart. I'm self-employed, pay through the nose for my own insurance because of Obamacare that caused my rates to skyrocket (quadruple over 4 years). No government benefits for me -- I make too much money, but not enough that I can "self-insure." Argh.

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I don’t believe the death from covid numbers and I am always amazed at the ways the left finds to show their hatred toward Trump and his supporters.

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But what they failed to report - after all those people died, they became Biden voters.

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I'm pasting this here from a response I just made in the previous thread.

Why do people keep missing Alex's point?

Remember Ralph Nader? He made his initial big mark by writing a book called "Unsafe at any Speed" about the Corvair. The car had a one piece steering column that would push right through the driver's chest in the event of a collision. It was his book that got the Gov to require a multi link collapsible steering column in all cars. That change has saved millions of lives.

A lot of people owned Corvairs, never had accidents and loved them. Did that mean their Corvairs didn't have that same flaw?

All Alex is doing is pointing out simple factual data that shows, like the Corvair, these Vax's are not particularly safe. Some people will get vaxed and may never have any issues. but a lot of people are dying from them. Not everyone, but a lot.

Nader didn't say all cars had to go, and I bet he owned his share. Alex isn't saying all vaxes need to go. But like the Corvair, if you know there is a problem, and the data says there is, you better figure it out and fix it.

I'll add that if after reading Nader's book, car designs were limited to one piece steering columns and we were mandated by the Gov to drive them x miles a day, my reaction would be the same. Why is the Gov mandating I drive a car that has shown to be unsafe in a crash? Do they want me to die? Or is someone paying them?

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Feb 18, 2022·edited Feb 18, 2022

100%. I've been posting this since July 2020 to anyone who needs to hear it:

The *real* reason why the US has Covid worse than any other country is due to the crappy American diet, and the fact the 88% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy. Remember: The four leading comorbidities for Covid are Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart issues, and everyone's favorite, obesity. What causes all of those underlying conditions? The greasy, carb-filled American diet.

Why is no one in a leadership position talking about how being healthy in the first place helps you resist and even beat Covid? Easy...because too many profit from:

1. Big Food (which loves fat people) and

2. Big Pharma (which loves unhealthy people)

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/what-does-it-mean-to-be-metabolically-healthy

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There is no excuse for this inflammatory partisan nonsense. It serves to keep us all divided. It ensures that, by making Covid paranoia a political statement, many blue regions of the country will never move on from the faux-pandemic, with all its adverse mental and physical health effects. And dissenters in blue states will continue to feel ostracised and their liberties continually eroded.

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The major fallacy is the assumption that averages apply to individuals. In every group, however arbitrarily assembled, some perform better than others. Competent people want to learn how the successful ones perform better, and to be more like them. Obsessing over averages is a trait of socialists, who demand that everyone fail together rather than anyone trying to excel. That's why socialism always fails.

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It's so dishonest but Covid has unfortunately been political from the get go... I wish there had been a larger conversation about the health (or lack thereof) of Americans from the get go. Even thin affluent people are often malnourished (and I know a lot of educated, middle aged women with autoimmune disorders) because they are on crazy diets. I've lived in two affluent areas since college (Buckhead in Atlanta and Fairfield County in Connecticut) and I am always shocked at what these people feed their kids - just pure junk. And then the poor (and often middle class) eat cheap processed foods and so they are definitely malnourished. Most of our health care costs are because people have so much mitochondrial dysfunction. Obesity is just a byproduct of malnourishment.

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I the suspect the reality is we have the most profitable health system in the world. We spend lots of money and get so-so outcomes. Probably somebody is writing about that. No one I've read.

I feel like people need to do the same thing they did with covid. Take things into their own hands. Government is never going to perform healthcare. And a profitable healthcare system is never going to reform itself.

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They’ve been horribly wrong on COVID. Imagine how wrong they’ve been about other diseases, especially diseases that are expensive to treat. Especially diseases that affect people in rural and poor areas. Imagine the society level experimentation that has been going on for decades. And we pay for it.

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How do they explain the fact that Trump touts the vaccine to this day? If we were such lemmings all the Trumpers would be vaccinated.

More obfuscating to cover the real story on the deaths.

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Anyone who followed the “food pyramid” my generation grew up with in the 1980’s and 1990’s is not very healthy now……. Because public health is sooo right about so much

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Notice that they never compare unvaccinated vs. vaccinated by race.

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Epidemiologists would call this “ecologic fallacy”. This is when aggregate data (state, country, etc) suggests an association between X and Y that does not hold once analyzed at the individual level. And yet, I guarantee you that morons with fancy public health degrees accept stories like this hook, line and sinker. TDS renders them incapable of reason. It truly, truly is mass formation.

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Feb 18, 2022·edited Feb 18, 2022

My dad, who was born in 1913, and worked as an accountant, had a phrase which is very applicable to today. "Figures lie, and liars figure."

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as Dennis Prager would say “truth is not a left wing value” just listen to HRC lately!

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Have been following the increased MSM media Pharma ads. Large increase in medications being promoted for treatment of AIDS (VAIDS), Neurodegenerative and Cancers. Coincidence?

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Medicine is broken in the US and it has been for some time. It started to break when employers starting giving it as a benefit in the 1960s.. They did so because tax rates were such they couldn't pay people more. Obamacare was the final nail in the coffin construction that started in the 60s.....Pharma in particular has been particularly egregious with it's never ending loop of making people more sick with their "medicine" because they knew from the beginning the more sick people are the more money they make. That is their business model and it has always been their business model. Alex, research the changes in what constitutes high blood pressure and high cholesterol today versus what it was in the 1950s and 1960s. They have purposefully lowered the threshold so they can sell more pills. The whole thing is a scam. The BMI is also a stupid number because it doesn't account for muscle which of course is leaner than fat. Wake up folks. So called healthcare is a scam - always has been and always will be. There are good doctors but you need to pray heavily to find them - and some of the good ones don't take insurance.

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Well said. I see so many overweight people when I'm out and about and wonder, how can they not understand the impact all those extra pounds have on their overall health? And yet, I see no campaign to talk about healthy lifestyle choices or eating right. Common sense stuff, but we have no common sense left in this country.

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That healthcare chart is great! That alone should be enough to dismantle (at a minimum) the CDC, FDA, NIH, etc.

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Alex what about the new Project veritas under cover report of the snake from the FDA ???

It was damming to say the least as a father of two daughters under 5 I’m sick to my stomach!

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This drives me nuts too. You should check out an excellent article on the data misrepresentations presented to the state board of health to try to get them to add the C19 jab to the vaccine schedule for children to attend school and day care (even 3-5 year-olds with no EUA) with NO transmission data in this age group.

The lies about unvaccinated people having a higher risk of hospitalization from Covid and their misrepresentation about myocarditis and MIS-C (they said both were more often caused by the virus than the jab) are especially disturbing. Absolutely unbelievable! Check it out, https://nursevoice.substack.com/p/wsboh-criteria-6-rebuttal?utm_source=url

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They're stopping publishing the Scottish data because of you, Alex - you right wing anti-vaxxer American talking head! LOL

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/19931641.amp/

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I wish your level of reporting, analysis, and integrity had been around when the FDA published their Food Pyramids that recommended carbs as the primary food group for a healthy lifestyle. This was and is a disaster for people with insulin sensitivity who tried to eat low fat and high carbs for years--ruining their agility to process sugar efficiently and gaining weight while desperately trying to follow the pyramid. Some people can eat according to the pyramid and be healthy, but for a large portion of the US population who is overweight, years of bad health recommendations from the FDA have created an almost impossible trap to escape.

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The last vestiges of good faith and intellectual honesty departed from the NYT years ago, probably at around the same time Alex did.

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Feb 18, 2022·edited Feb 18, 2022

I've been aware of the trend exhibited by this chart for some years. Our medical establishment is deeply corrupted and dysfunctional and has been for several decades. The problem is that most people treat medicine like a religion rather than as a science-based tool.

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Feb 18, 2022·edited Feb 18, 2022

Damn, Alex. "The first step to fixing reality is acknowledging it." This is why I love you so much. You are my brother from another mother. Over the past 18 mo or so, the hardest part of all this covid crap for me has been my own returning awareness that when it comes to what I call "faithfulness to reality", most people have higher priorities. They allow all sorts of things to come between themselves and reality. I perceive and connect to everyone and everything through my relationship with reality. The painfulness of any truth doesn't make it less desirable--just more painful to experience. Suffering is pain multiplied by resistance. If we accept the painful, it hurts but it doesn't damage and distort us the way suffering brought on by resistance (denial, scapegoating, etc) can and does. That affinity for reality, no matter how ugly, made me a weirdo in the 90's, but then culture came my way and after a while I actually became convinced that I shared reality with a lot of other people for a long time. Turns out they were PRETENDING to be aligned with reality during that time--they were just aligned with the crowd. I've been thinking lately that perhaps what made me "this way" was the marijuana-induced psychosis I struggled with for a while, all alone and in secret, when I was 14 until I decided to ditch all my friends and hobbies, stop all intoxicants, and basically garden. That prolonged hell and near-loss of life convinced me completely that the path to hell is any loss of intimacy with and faithfulness to reality. I never read your book about marijuana, but this makes me wonder if you had a similar experience that made you "this way". Anyway...so grateful for who you are, and for the fact that you share yourself widely enough to reach me.

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The scam that is our food supply is greater than the scam that is our Covid vaccines.

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The irony is that if Trump voters were so in the tank for everything that Trump was saying and pushing, they all would have gotten the jab. After all, Trump is the father of the clot shot.

But in reality, if it is actually Trump voters who are the dreaded "anti-vaxxers" they are that way despite Trump's wishes. After all, he's been promoting his involvement with Operation Warp Speed for two years.

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Its a repeat observation Alex made a while back. Putting the general health of the population aside, Republicans tend to be older than Democrats (I am a fan of general rules), and as such, as the details that used to be provided by NSW on a daily basis (what happened to that information by the way), Covid kills the elderly. The NYT and anyone else can cherry pick data to try and prove a point. Americans are not deep thinkers and expect others to do the thinking for them, so they believe what they read and parrot it in conversations. Its amazing how often this happens. Spend some time at a local bar and get in a conversation (try to avoid having it turn into an argument, which won't be easy) with a stranger and you will hear exactly what you read, without any additional observation.

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Odd how much the graph of health expenditure per capita vs life expectancy looks like the graph of education expenditure per capita vs mastery of subject matter. Just a coincidence, i'm sure.

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We seem intent on learning precisely the wrong lessons over and over and over.

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Finally, the Elephant in the Room has been spoken about!!!!

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Hmmm, I wonder if the NYT will publish an article with all their pretty graphs showing how counties that went heavy for Biden are leading the nation in gun violence as compared to those that Trump won by landslide.

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I would think this would make Dems extremely happy. The factors involved are too many to count and the chart is meaningless other than to say "Hey, we may have screwed up the world and created a generation of cowed humans, but, hey, we killed off Trump voters, so it's all good in the end."

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TDS was the first Mass Formation Psychosis

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The problem is we sell "health care" because people look for something outside of themselves, the easy fix - take a pill, get a vaccine, surgery, etc. There's money in "health care" vs. a system that stresses "healthy lifestyle", where there is less profit. But that involves effort - watch what you eat, move, get exercise, find methods to reduce stress, get out in nature, etc. Too many doctors are fearful of telling patients to lose weight, i.e. "fat shaming." So now you see articles about fat but fit. It's great for pharma and hospitals because when the chronic disease, etc. catches up with the bad habits, they can make money from bariatric surgery, knee and hip replacements, insulin, etc.

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So incredibly true about how deeply unhealthy our country is. And it certainly isn't the fault of Trump. The blame can be shared by every politician that gains from Big Pharma, Big Sugar and Big everything else that lines pockets and destroys health. Now with the Covid economy we have millions of citizens ( many children) with lifelong mental health problems. It is time to fight back and Alex, we thank you for starting to do so!

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The United States is not only the unhealthiness country in the world that spends the most money on health care or rather SICK CARE, the US has the most unhealthy children in the industrialized world.

Children in the United States are experiencing a serious and historically unprecedented burden of chronic illness. American children display consistently poorer health outcomes than children in other wealthy nations, notwithstanding substantially higher per capita health care spending on U.S. children.

Chronic Illness in Children—Who Is Sounding the Alarm?

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/chronically-ill-children-who-is-sounding-the-alarm/

Chronically ill children grow up to be chronically ill adults. Here is one reason:

The prevalence of obesity was 19.3% and affected about 14.4 million children and adolescents. Obesity prevalence was 13.4% among 2- to 5-year-olds, 20.3% among 6- to 11-year-olds, and 21.2% among 12- to 19-year-olds

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html

Many children already have comorbidities which is a major reason NOT to give the gene based therapy shots to them.

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Great points, Alex, about our problem of obesity. We are destroying ourselves with our addiction to food. We are eating to fix our empty hearts.

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I turn on cable TV just to be amazed by the incredible proliferation of pharma advertising in the US. Our European peers generally require pharma companies to show net benefits (including socioeconomic measures) of a drug for approval/coverage. Excludes several drugs approved/covered in the US. We love our sick people here! They’re walking dollar bills. And we love side effects! They’re a way to prescribe more drugs to counter them!

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When our supposed "elites" want to start another war, they should be forced to look at this chart on health expenditure and deaths per capita. America is rotting from within. Similar to Rome but our leaders want to fight over Ukraine. 90% of America couldn't find it on a map. The jump in deaths in America from covid, the vaccine, suicide and drugs from 2019 to 2021 is absolutely staggering. It's up by 20%. That literally the same amount during war years. Haha and our leaders want to fight about Ukraine. What a clown world.

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Shut down the media for 30 days and watch how fast 90% of our problems disappear.

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