Merged Fauci Should Be In Prison - Senator Rand Paul

[Jason Harvestdancer]

Fascinating, a self- proclaimed libertarian denying the role of agency in human events.

Illiterate much?

I realize it is hard to believe , but I don’t read or care about everything you post. I generally avoid stepping in your alternative universe. And when I let optimism triumph over experience and step into it, I have to clean my metaphorical shoe.

You've been so butt-hurt ever since I caught you out in the Defending Hitler thread that you can't resist responding negatively to me.

How deadly was this particular plague?

<snip a bunch of raw numbers>

This doesn't sound like the trivial event you are trying to portray it as being. It is still killing Americans, albeit in far smaller numbers now that vaccination is available.

I dunno, maybe you think that the 9/11 attacks, and the two World Wars, were unimportant too.

Raw numbers are great. They aslo don't mean a thing. This plague, the wosrt since the Black Plague, has a 99% survival rate.

And that 99% number was before the vaccinations.

Jason Harvestdancer, this is a serious question. How would you characterize the issuance of a citation or arrest of the driver in this instance:

Was there a 99% chance he would cross the bridge safely? If he could cross the bridge safely (assuming 99% chance) would you accuse him of wanting to kill others for crossing that bridge?

Approximately 1.21 million to 1.24 million Americans have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic began in early 2020. [1]

Any other vacuous points I can look up for you?

Less than 1 percent. The deadliest plague in human history kills less than 1%.

 

[laughing dog]

Fascinating, a self- proclaimed libertarian denying the role of agency in human events.

Illiterate much?

I realize it is hard to believe , but I don’t read or care about everything you post. I generally avoid stepping in your alternative universe. And when I let optimism triumph over experience and step into it, I have to clean my metaphorical shoe.

You've been so butt-hurt ever since I caught you out in the Defending Hitler thread that you can't resist responding negatively to me.

. LOL,
I hope your embarrassing ironic response provides you some therapeutic relief. Honestly, whatever helps you cope with reality, so I’ll get out of the way snd let you recuperate.

 

[bilby]

Less than 1 percent. The deadliest plague in human history kills less than 1%.

Literally nobody is saying that Covid is "The deadliest plague in human history", except you. It's a strawman.

Covid death rates were far lower than other historical plagues, largely because we now have modern medicine. Many people who in past eras would have died could now be kept alive, and many infections were prevented by the very measures you deride.

Nonetheless, the disease killed more Americans than both World Wars combined.

You like rates, rather than "raw numbers"?

The Great War caused the deaths of an estimated 17 million people (including military and civilian deaths, but excluding the 1918 influenza pandemic). This was roughly 0.9% of the global population at the time (around 1.8 billion in 1914). The death rate amongst the US population was, of course, far lower.

Less than 1%. The War to End All Wars kills less than 1%. I don't see why everyone made such a fuss about it.

(In case you were wondering, WWII killed about 0.32% of the US population - also less than 1%).

 

[Arctish]

Jason Harvestdancer, this is a serious question. How would you characterize the issuance of a citation or arrest of the driver in this instance:

Was there a 99% chance he would cross the bridge safely? If he could cross the bridge safely (assuming 99% chance) would you accuse him of wanting to kill others for crossing that bridge?

I asked you how you would characterize the guy driving the car in that video getting arrested or getting a traffic ticket for it.

I'm sure you understand how a guy going to a closed beach and a guy driving on a closed road are analogous situations.

I'm not so sure you see the similarities between the threats to public safety posed by a virus that was killing thousands of people every week and flooding that had killed one or two people in a few days. Honestly, I think the fact that the flood caused property damage puts it in a different category in your worldview, so maybe to you those situations don't look similar at all.

But what I'm getting at here is that entering an area closed to the public is against the law regardless of the reason it was closed, even if/when you think that reason is insufficient to justify the closure.

Was there a 99% chance he would cross the bridge safely? If he could cross the bridge safely (assuming 99% chance) would you accuse him of wanting to kill others for crossing that bridge?

I do not know the odds of him crossing that bridge successfully, but I do know there was a 0% chance of him doing it safely, even on foot.

 

[Patooka]

Less than 1 percent. The deadliest plague in human history kills less than 1%.

Literally nobody is saying that Covid is "The deadliest plague in human history", except you. It's a strawman.

Covid death rates were far lower than other historical plagues, largely because we now have modern medicine. Many people who in past eras would have died could now be kept alive, and many infections were prevented by the very measures you deride.

Nonetheless, the disease killed more Americans than both World Wars combined.

You like rates, rather than "raw numbers"?

The Great War caused the deaths of an estimated 17 million people (including military and civilian deaths, but excluding the 1918 influenza pandemic). This was roughly 0.9% of the global population at the time (around 1.8 billion in 1914). The death rate amongst the US population was, of course, far lower.

Less than 1%. The War to End All Wars kills less than 1%. I don't see why everyone made such a fuss about it.

(In case you were wondering, WWII killed about 0.32% of the US population - also less than 1%).

*Raises hand* can I play the numbers game too?
Percentage of people who died from covid living in the US (1.2/7.1*100) - 16.9%
Percentage of the world's population that lives in the US (0.349/8.32*100) - 4.2%

Holy fuck! In a global pandemic you are 4 times more likely to die in a country where its government ignores the advice of their experts and its citizens stock up on horse de-wormer instead because a podcaster told them to! Who'd have thought?

Or to put it another way, a disproportionate number of deaths (and I suspect overall cases) of covid are a direct result from the bullshit people like Swiz and JH spew.