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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
That number is the one thing I'll defend Joe* on.

All of those Covid deaths under Biden*'s watch are just as much bullshit as the ones under Trump's were.

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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus

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USA 62,661,000+
India 35,875,790
Brazil 22,558,695

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries


428,000 + Americans have died from COVID-19 since President Joe Biden took office and promised to "shut down the virus."
https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/biden-covid-death-tracker/]

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Now its

USA 89,527,000 +
India 43,513,117
Brazil 32,476,920

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608,887 Americans have died from COVID-19 since President Joe Biden took office. He promised the American people he would "shut down the virus." (Fact check: He has not.)

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USA 89,527,000 +
India 43,513,117
Brazil 32,476,920

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608,887 Americans have died from COVID-19 since President Joe Biden took office. He promised the American people he would "shut down the virus." (Fact check: He has not.)

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Originally posted by second:
This year 14 percent of adults have received a dose of the new vaccine formulation that became available in September — compared to 28 percent who have gotten a flu shot.

More than 80 percent of all Americans, and more than 90 percent of adults, received at least one dose of the vaccines, remarkable penetration in a country where less than half of people get their flu shot every year.

Ever since that first shot, the public’s interest in subsequent Covid-19 vaccines has been steadily dropping. Less than 70 percent of the US finished their initial two-dose vaccine series. Less than 20 percent of the country received last year’s bivalent booster shot.

Pfizer said in September that it expected about one in four Americans to get the latest shot. Though there is still time, current vaccination rates are well short of that goal. It is an open question how the for-profit pharmaceutical manufacturers who produce these vaccines will respond to what the market is telling them.

https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/11/17/23964294/covid-19-vaccine-2023-u
s-vaccination-rates

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by THG:
I just got a COVID booster. To bad for kiki. Had she gotten one she might still be alive and posting.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

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Originally posted by THG:
I just got a COVID booster. To bad for kiki. Had she gotten one she might still be alive and posting.

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Kiki wasn't against the Covid vaccine, so that's not just a shitty thing to say but it's just as stupid as anything else you've ever posted.

Get your heart checked out idiot.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Who knows? Kiki might not be with us anymore, sad as that would be. But it certainly wasn't because she missed a booster.

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Originally posted by second:

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Who knows? Kiki might not be with us anymore, sad as that would be. But it certainly wasn't because she missed a booster.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Yup. 4 more years of Coomph panic when Trump wins.

In the alternate timeline where Biden wins, you don't hear about it anymore after spring of 2021.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:


I've got the only tick tock that matters here, Ted.

They fucked the entire world up. We have no idea what that's going to mean for us or our children's futures.

SPOILER ALERT: Your vaccine wasn't a vaccine and everybody who got vaccinated and boosted still got Covid at least once. Some people have had it many times now.

We didn't get the same vaccination that people like Warren Buffett got.

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Originally posted by second:
What worked to stop the spread of COVID-19?

https://jabberwocking.com/what-worked-to-stop-the-spread-of-covid-19/

A recent paper by Christopher Ruhm of the University of Virginia quantifies the value of various efforts to combat COVID-19 in the US.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2821581

The headline result is a composite score for different states based on what kinds of restrictions they imposed, but I found the detailed national breakdown more interesting. Here are his estimates of how various interventions affected death rates:



By comparing excess death rates in different states with different restrictions in place, Ruhm estimates how effective each one was. The results are pretty simple:

• Vaccines work great.

• Mask mandates work OK.

• Prohibitions on mask and vaccine mandates are terrible.

Nothing else has much impact. The effects are all fairly small and in many cases aren't even statistically significant. Restaurant closures are minimally effective, but probably not worth it (though it's almost certainly a good idea for wait staff to wear masks).

This is one study, and its results are hardly the last word. Still, it's striking that an awful lot of research has now been done and it mostly finds that hardly anything makes much of a difference. Masks help a little bit, but aside from that it's vaccines or nothing.

Note, however, that there are several interventions that weren't measured in this study: social distancing, better ventilation, UV light, and remote work. All of these are things that likely have some impact.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

What say you, SIX?

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Originally posted by THG:
It's over, the facts are in and the vacene was a tremendous success.

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