When people are able to design their lives in a way that they can determine their own futures, we are a stronger democracy and we are a stronger nation. When people are able to make choices without government interference for themselves — in terms of their wellbeing and the wellbeing of their family, in consultation with whomever they may choose — we are a stronger society.”
Abortion: our bodies, our choice! Government should never dictate what we do to our bodies or put in them!
covid: government needs to mandate vaccines! We need govt to force everyone to do what they want them to do!
perplexing indeed.
if getting a freaking photo ID in order to vote is racist and disenfranchising to minorities (they themselves poll that it’s not), I wonder what we call it when you force them to get vaxxed? 🤔. You know who is the largest unvaxxed group in the US is? it’s African Americans. Huh. Welp.
ABORTION ISN'T CONTAGIOUS.
WELP
"Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk" -EV 8/14/93
When people are able to design their lives in a way that they can determine their own futures, we are a stronger democracy and we are a stronger nation. When people are able to make choices without government interference for themselves — in terms of their wellbeing and the wellbeing of their family, in consultation with whomever they may choose — we are a stronger society.”
Abortion: our bodies, our choice! Government should never dictate what we do to our bodies or put in them!
covid: government needs to mandate vaccines! We need govt to force everyone to do what they want them to do!
perplexing indeed.
if getting a freaking photo ID in order to vote is racist and disenfranchising to minorities (they themselves poll that it’s not), I wonder what we call it when you force them to get vaxxed? 🤔. You know who is the largest unvaxxed group in the US is? it’s African Americans. Huh. Welp.
ABORTION ISN'T CONTAGIOUS.
WELP
Hahahaha. Nice trry. What a conundrum you dems find yourselves in as you’re slaves to govt when it suits you and against the hand that feeds you when you’re not. Glorious hypocrisy
When people are able to design their lives in a way that they can determine their own futures, we are a stronger democracy and we are a stronger nation. When people are able to make choices without government interference for themselves — in terms of their wellbeing and the wellbeing of their family, in consultation with whomever they may choose — we are a stronger society.”
Abortion: our bodies, our choice! Government should never dictate what we do to our bodies or put in them!
covid: government needs to mandate vaccines! We need govt to force everyone to do what they want them to do!
perplexing indeed.
if getting a freaking photo ID in order to vote is racist and disenfranchising to minorities (they themselves poll that it’s not), I wonder what we call it when you force them to get vaxxed? 🤔. You know who is the largest unvaxxed group in the US is? it’s African Americans. Huh. Welp.
You know who is the largest group to have medical experiments conducted on them by the US medical community in the US? It’s African Americans. Welp fucking indeed.
You all realize that England did away with all mandates including school vaccines right? And they’re doing great. We need to stay away from fascist dictators, we all agree- F our govt if they’re mandating ANYTHING. And that goes for that horrible abortion law here in tx recently too. F TX if they’re going to dictate anything we can or can’t do.
When people are able to design their lives in a way that they can determine their own futures, we are a stronger democracy and we are a stronger nation. When people are able to make choices without government interference for themselves — in terms of their wellbeing and the wellbeing of their family, in consultation with whomever they may choose — we are a stronger society.”
Abortion: our bodies, our choice! Government should never dictate what we do to our bodies or put in them!
covid: government needs to mandate vaccines! We need govt to force everyone to do what they want them to do!
perplexing indeed.
if getting a freaking photo ID in order to vote is racist and disenfranchising to minorities (they themselves poll that it’s not), I wonder what we call it when you force them to get vaxxed? 🤔. You know who is the largest unvaxxed group in the US is? it’s African Americans. Huh. Welp.
ABORTION ISN'T CONTAGIOUS.
WELP
Hahahaha. Nice trry. What a conundrum you dems find yourselves in as you’re slaves to govt when it suits you and against the hand that feeds you when you’re not. Glorious hypocrisy
you obviously have difficulty understanding when things are comparable and when they are not.
one is a global health crisis killing millions.
the other is a woman's autonomy over her own body.
you have autonomy over your own body. no one is forcing anyone to get vaxxed. it's the same as me asking you to take your shoes off to come in my house. if you choose not to, fine, that's your choice. but you can't come in. same with covid. you don't have the vaccine? fine, your choice. but you can't come in.
understand choice now?
"Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk" -EV 8/14/93
You all realize that England did away with all mandates including school vaccines right? And they’re doing great. We need to stay away from fascist dictators, we all agree- F our govt if they’re mandating ANYTHING. And that goes for that horrible abortion law here in tx recently too. F TX if they’re going to dictate anything we can or can’t do.
We are not doing great fyi
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Its more like 60.000 if you look at the zoe app. Actual symptoms tracker. The gov here still only allows pcr tests for fever. Loss of smell. Or cough and we know now the symptoms are not those at all esspecaily im vaccinated. Its all a shit show. I will keep you all updated as i will.bet my life i will be infected within a month. 2 kids at school college with absolutely no restrictions. Suicidal
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When people are able to design their lives in a way that they can determine their own futures, we are a stronger democracy and we are a stronger nation. When people are able to make choices without government interference for themselves — in terms of their wellbeing and the wellbeing of their family, in consultation with whomever they may choose — we are a stronger society.”
Abortion: our bodies, our choice! Government should never dictate what we do to our bodies or put in them!
covid: government needs to mandate vaccines! We need govt to force everyone to do what they want them to do!
perplexing indeed.
if getting a freaking photo ID in order to vote is racist and disenfranchising to minorities (they themselves poll that it’s not), I wonder what we call it when you force them to get vaxxed? 🤔. You know who is the largest unvaxxed group in the US is? it’s African Americans. Huh. Welp.
You know who is the largest group to have medical experiments conducted on them by the US medical community in the US? It’s African Americans. Welp fucking indeed.
Is that the legit reason? According to actual African Americans? Or is it just white people speaking for them, again.
When people are able to design their lives in a way that they can determine their own futures, we are a stronger democracy and we are a stronger nation. When people are able to make choices without government interference for themselves — in terms of their wellbeing and the wellbeing of their family, in consultation with whomever they may choose — we are a stronger society.”
Abortion: our bodies, our choice! Government should never dictate what we do to our bodies or put in them!
covid: government needs to mandate vaccines! We need govt to force everyone to do what they want them to do!
perplexing indeed.
if getting a freaking photo ID in order to vote is racist and disenfranchising to minorities (they themselves poll that it’s not), I wonder what we call it when you force them to get vaxxed? 🤔. You know who is the largest unvaxxed group in the US is? it’s African Americans. Huh. Welp.
You know who is the largest group to have medical experiments conducted on them by the US medical community in the US? It’s African Americans. Welp fucking indeed.
Is that the legit reason? According to actual African Americans? Or is it just white people speaking for them, again.
Why don’t you ask the Black people of your city? Do an informal poll. Get a clip board, stop and ask if they’re vaccinated, Mark it down and if they say no, ask them why they’re not vaccinated. I’d be interested in your findings.
When people are able to design their lives in a way that they can determine their own futures, we are a stronger democracy and we are a stronger nation. When people are able to make choices without government interference for themselves — in terms of their wellbeing and the wellbeing of their family, in consultation with whomever they may choose — we are a stronger society.”
Abortion: our bodies, our choice! Government should never dictate what we do to our bodies or put in them!
covid: government needs to mandate vaccines! We need govt to force everyone to do what they want them to do!
perplexing indeed.
if getting a freaking photo ID in order to vote is racist and disenfranchising to minorities (they themselves poll that it’s not), I wonder what we call it when you force them to get vaxxed? 🤔. You know who is the largest unvaxxed group in the US is? it’s African Americans. Huh. Welp.
You know who is the largest group to have medical experiments conducted on them by the US medical community in the US? It’s African Americans. Welp fucking indeed.
Is that the legit reason? According to actual African Americans? Or is it just white people speaking for them, again.
Why don’t you ask the Black people of your city? Do an informal poll. Get a clip board, stop and ask if they’re vaccinated, Mark it down and if they say no, ask them why they’re not vaccinated. I’d be interested in your findings.
Did I say it was a “legit reason?”
Yea. Sure. I’ll get right on that. And yes. You did. You pretty much use it as an excuse over and over again. Almost like it’s physically hurts you that “white hillbillies” aren’t the only people turning down the vaccine. Well, when it was a choice.
*im fully vaccinated and don’t give a shit if there’s mandates or not***
CDC finds unvaccinated 11 times more likely to die of COVID
By LAURAN NEERGAARD
32 mins ago
New U.S. studies released Friday show the COVID-19 vaccines remain highly effective against hospitalizations and death even as the extra-contagious delta variant swept the country.
One study tracked over 600,000 COVID-19 cases in 13 states from April through mid-July. As delta surged in early summer, those who were unvaccinated were 4.5 times more likely than the fully vaccinated to get infected, over 10 times more likely to be hospitalized and 11 times more likely to die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Vaccination works,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, CDC’s director, told a White House briefing Friday. “The bottom line is this: We have the scientific tools we need to turn the corner on this pandemic.”
But as earlier data has shown, protection against coronavirus infection is slipping some: It was 91% in the spring but 78% in June and July, the study found.
So-called "breakthrough” cases in the fully vaccinated accounted for 14% of hospitalizations and 16% of deaths in June and July, about twice the percentage as earlier in the year.
An increase in those percentages isn’t surprising: No one ever said the vaccines were perfect and health experts have warned that as more Americans get vaccinated, they naturally will account for a greater fraction of the cases.
Walensky said Friday that well over 90% of people in U.S. hospitals with COVID-19 are unvaccinated.
CDC released two other studies Friday that signaled hints of waning protection for older adults. One examined COVID-19 hospitalizations in nine states over the summer and found protection for those 75 and older was 76% compared to 89% for all other adults. And in five Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, protection against COVID-19 hospitalizations was 95% among 18- to 64-year-olds compared to 80% among those 65 and older.
It isn't clear if the changes seen over time are because immunity is waning in people first vaccinated many months ago, that the vaccine isn’t quite as strong against delta -- or that much of the country abandoned masks and other precautions just as delta started spreading.
But U.S. health authorities will consider this latest real-world data as they decide if at least some Americans need a booster, and how soon after their last dose. Next week, advisers to the Food and Drug Administration will publicly debate Pfizer’s application to offer a third shot
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When people are able to design their lives in a way that they can determine their own futures, we are a stronger democracy and we are a stronger nation. When people are able to make choices without government interference for themselves — in terms of their wellbeing and the wellbeing of their family, in consultation with whomever they may choose — we are a stronger society.”
Abortion: our bodies, our choice! Government should never dictate what we do to our bodies or put in them!
covid: government needs to mandate vaccines! We need govt to force everyone to do what they want them to do!
perplexing indeed.
if getting a freaking photo ID in order to vote is racist and disenfranchising to minorities (they themselves poll that it’s not), I wonder what we call it when you force them to get vaxxed? 🤔. You know who is the largest unvaxxed group in the US is? it’s African Americans. Huh. Welp.
You know who is the largest group to have medical experiments conducted on them by the US medical community in the US? It’s African Americans. Welp fucking indeed.
Is that the legit reason? According to actual African Americans? Or is it just white people speaking for them, again.
Why don’t you ask the Black people of your city? Do an informal poll. Get a clip board, stop and ask if they’re vaccinated, Mark it down and if they say no, ask them why they’re not vaccinated. I’d be interested in your findings.
Did I say it was a “legit reason?”
Yea. Sure. I’ll get right on that. And yes. You did. You pretty much use it as an excuse over and over again. Almost like it’s physically hurts you that “white hillbillies” aren’t the only people turning down the vaccine. Well, when it was a choice.
*im fully vaccinated and don’t give a shit if there’s mandates or not***
Nowhere did I say it was a “legit reason.” I stated a fact about some ugly US history. Physically hurts me? What kind of a BS statement is that? Yea, I’m “physically hurt.”
I’m embarrassed by the paltry vaccination rate in the US and this nation of crybabies that no longer see a common good. And the 655,000 and rising dead ‘Muricans. Fucking embarrassing. I have no sympathy left for freedumb.
When people are able to design their lives in a way that they can determine their own futures, we are a stronger democracy and we are a stronger nation. When people are able to make choices without government interference for themselves — in terms of their wellbeing and the wellbeing of their family, in consultation with whomever they may choose — we are a stronger society.”
Abortion: our bodies, our choice! Government should never dictate what we do to our bodies or put in them!
covid: government needs to mandate vaccines! We need govt to force everyone to do what they want them to do!
perplexing indeed.
if getting a freaking photo ID in order to vote is racist and disenfranchising to minorities (they themselves poll that it’s not), I wonder what we call it when you force them to get vaxxed? 🤔. You know who is the largest unvaxxed group in the US is? it’s African Americans. Huh. Welp.
Your right to swing your first ends when it comes into contact with someone's nose. Your analogy doesn't work.
As i stood at the school gates. There were about 100 parents in a queue because they refuse to open gates so we cqn spread out in play ground. So i said to the woman next to me. This is silly especially in pandemic . And i shit you not. She turned and said "i dont believe in covid. I do believe in the flu" At that point i turned and stood the other way and just wished i didn't have school aged kids. Like we still have the worst rates in europe . This is what we are up against. "I don't believe in covid"🤯mind fuckin blown
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A person on my volleyball team was talking about a friend of hers with cancer currently doing chemo. Earlier in the week this person started having issues. Went to a ER here in the Twin Cities, and was told to go home as they had no beds available due to the large amount of COVID patients. 27 hours later the hospital called letting them know they could accommodate them as space had freed up.
A person on my volleyball team was talking about a friend of hers with cancer currently doing chemo. Earlier in the week this person started having issues. Went to a ER here in the Twin Cities, and was told to go home as they had no beds available due to the large amount of COVID patients. 27 hours later the hospital called letting them know they could accommodate them as space had freed up.
Good for her man it’s incredible that it has come to this
When people are able to design their lives in a way that they can determine their own futures, we are a stronger democracy and we are a stronger nation. When people are able to make choices without government interference for themselves — in terms of their wellbeing and the wellbeing of their family, in consultation with whomever they may choose — we are a stronger society.”
Abortion: our bodies, our choice! Government should never dictate what we do to our bodies or put in them!
covid: government needs to mandate vaccines! We need govt to force everyone to do what they want them to do!
perplexing indeed.
if getting a freaking photo ID in order to vote is racist and disenfranchising to minorities (they themselves poll that it’s not), I wonder what we call it when you force them to get vaxxed? 🤔. You know who is the largest unvaxxed group in the US is? it’s African Americans. Huh. Welp.
ABORTION ISN'T CONTAGIOUS.
WELP
Hahahaha. Nice trry. What a conundrum you dems find yourselves in as you’re slaves to govt when it suits you and against the hand that feeds you when you’re not. Glorious hypocrisy
Call it nuance or context or whatever you'd like, but as you've already ignored, there are fundamental differences between these two scenarios, and luckily for us all, people in charge recognize that where you don't.
Society incurs zero additional risk by permitting abortions. Society incurs massive additional risk by allowing unvaccinated people to continue to freely expose others to it.
Governments are supposed to help manage the hardships they (usually correctly) assume society will mishandle.
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As i stood at the school gates. There were about 100 parents in a queue because they refuse to open gates so we cqn spread out in play ground. So i said to the woman next to me. This is silly especially in pandemic . And i shit you not. She turned and said "i dont believe in covid. I do believe in the flu" At that point i turned and stood the other way and just wished i didn't have school aged kids. Like we still have the worst rates in europe . This is what we are up against. "I don't believe in covid"🤯mind fuckin blown
In the endless coverage here of people who refuse to believe in covid/masks/vaccines, there was a memorable quote from a woman who noted that people were not dying in their yards and/or lying dead in the streets, so clearly there isn't a pandemic.
That's when I realized that since what's happening doesn't look like a scene from "The Stand"' or "I Am Legend," people don't believe there's a problem. Too many of us think movies = real life, because we are an unserious nation. :-(
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Central Magnet junior Grady Knox told school board 'We're killing people' by not wearing masks
Grady and other speaking students impress board vice chairwoman
CNN interviewed Central Magnet students who spoke in support of mask requirements in school
The heckling of the Grady Knox speech went viral and displayed by Newsweek to national audience
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — "...I’m
worried about my family. If I get COVID, I’m going to bring it to my
family, and I talk to my grandparents a lot. They are higher risk than
me, so I don’t want to give them COVID.
"This
time last year, my grandmother, who was a former teacher at the
Rutherford County school system, died of COVID because someone wasn’t
wearing a mask."
Tennessee High schooler Grady Knox's
passionate plea for the health of himself and others was mocked earlier
this week at a Rutherford County Board of Education meeting, a scene
which has drawn national attention to this hyper-divisive debate.
Knox
was ridiculed, even laughed at, Tuesday evening by some in the school
board meeting audience when he said his grandmother died of COVID-19
after being exposed to a person without a mask.
Knox
was among the seven students who asked the Rutherford County Board of
Education to require masks. Six of the students represented Central
Magnet School, which serves high achievers in downtown Murfreesboro.
Knox:
"This is going to continue if we don’t have a mask mandate. Contact
tracing has been a big issue for students this year because all of us
know that if we get contact traced we’re going to miss at least a week
of school. That’s a week of instruction, a week of teacher contact that
we’re going to miss.
Knox
remained calm while getting heckled. His composure impressed his
father, Kerry Knox, a Murfreesboro attorney, who had a sense of
disbelief that a crowd would act like that to a child.
"I wanted to defend him but he handled it so much better than I could have," said the father.
Knox's grandmother lived at Adams Place retirement community in Murfreesboro before she died of COVID-19.
Prior to that, she retired from a career as an English teacher at Oakland High, Kerry Knox said.
The board's indecision on changing the policy followed
a three-hour debate that included hearing a few dozen speeches from
people on both sides of the mask issue in a packed meeting room.
Knox:
"I talked to one of my classmates today, and he said that he was
worried about a test that he had to take because he had missed the
entire last week of school and hadn’t seen his math teacher until that
day. This is not something that we want to be going on in our schools."
Some
of the people against masks heckled and laughed at Knox to
interrupt his speech while others defended him. This video recorded
moment went viral as national media outlets shared the story.
Knox stopped for a few seconds when the audience heckling occurred before board Chairman Coy Young spoke.
"Hey guys, we’re here to act professional," Young said before Knox continued.
"This
is an avoidable issue, and by not wearing masks in schools, it’s
irresponsible. We’re killing people. This is not something we should be
doing for the education of our students. Thank you."
Knox was part of a group of six Central Magnet School students organized by classmate Will Severn to speak.
Grady and other speaking students impress board vice chairwoman
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Central Magnet junior Grady Knox told school board 'We're killing people' by not wearing masks
Grady and other speaking students impress board vice chairwoman
CNN interviewed Central Magnet students who spoke in support of mask requirements in school
The heckling of the Grady Knox speech went viral and displayed by Newsweek to national audience
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — "...I’m
worried about my family. If I get COVID, I’m going to bring it to my
family, and I talk to my grandparents a lot. They are higher risk than
me, so I don’t want to give them COVID.
"This
time last year, my grandmother, who was a former teacher at the
Rutherford County school system, died of COVID because someone wasn’t
wearing a mask."
Tennessee High schooler Grady Knox's
passionate plea for the health of himself and others was mocked earlier
this week at a Rutherford County Board of Education meeting, a scene
which has drawn national attention to this hyper-divisive debate.
Knox
was ridiculed, even laughed at, Tuesday evening by some in the school
board meeting audience when he said his grandmother died of COVID-19
after being exposed to a person without a mask.
Knox
was among the seven students who asked the Rutherford County Board of
Education to require masks. Six of the students represented Central
Magnet School, which serves high achievers in downtown Murfreesboro.
Knox:
"This is going to continue if we don’t have a mask mandate. Contact
tracing has been a big issue for students this year because all of us
know that if we get contact traced we’re going to miss at least a week
of school. That’s a week of instruction, a week of teacher contact that
we’re going to miss.
Knox
remained calm while getting heckled. His composure impressed his
father, Kerry Knox, a Murfreesboro attorney, who had a sense of
disbelief that a crowd would act like that to a child.
"I wanted to defend him but he handled it so much better than I could have," said the father.
Knox's grandmother lived at Adams Place retirement community in Murfreesboro before she died of COVID-19.
Prior to that, she retired from a career as an English teacher at Oakland High, Kerry Knox said.
The board's indecision on changing the policy followed
a three-hour debate that included hearing a few dozen speeches from
people on both sides of the mask issue in a packed meeting room.
Knox:
"I talked to one of my classmates today, and he said that he was
worried about a test that he had to take because he had missed the
entire last week of school and hadn’t seen his math teacher until that
day. This is not something that we want to be going on in our schools."
Some
of the people against masks heckled and laughed at Knox to
interrupt his speech while others defended him. This video recorded
moment went viral as national media outlets shared the story.
Knox stopped for a few seconds when the audience heckling occurred before board Chairman Coy Young spoke.
"Hey guys, we’re here to act professional," Young said before Knox continued.
"This
is an avoidable issue, and by not wearing masks in schools, it’s
irresponsible. We’re killing people. This is not something we should be
doing for the education of our students. Thank you."
Knox was part of a group of six Central Magnet School students organized by classmate Will Severn to speak.
Grady and other speaking students impress board vice chairwoman
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one is a global health crisis killing millions.
the other is a woman's autonomy over her own body.
you have autonomy over your own body. no one is forcing anyone to get vaxxed. it's the same as me asking you to take your shoes off to come in my house. if you choose not to, fine, that's your choice. but you can't come in. same with covid. you don't have the vaccine? fine, your choice. but you can't come in.
understand choice now?
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https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
only 34,000 new cases in a day. WELP
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the adults are trying to fix it now, so the childish antimaskers and antivaxxers can kinda just sit this one out.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Did I say it was a “legit reason?”
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New U.S. studies released Friday show the COVID-19 vaccines remain highly effective against hospitalizations and death even as the extra-contagious delta variant swept the country.
One study tracked over 600,000 COVID-19 cases in 13 states from April through mid-July. As delta surged in early summer, those who were unvaccinated were 4.5 times more likely than the fully vaccinated to get infected, over 10 times more likely to be hospitalized and 11 times more likely to die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Vaccination works,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, CDC’s director, told a White House briefing Friday. “The bottom line is this: We have the scientific tools we need to turn the corner on this pandemic.”
But as earlier data has shown, protection against coronavirus infection is slipping some: It was 91% in the spring but 78% in June and July, the study found.
So-called "breakthrough” cases in the fully vaccinated accounted for 14% of hospitalizations and 16% of deaths in June and July, about twice the percentage as earlier in the year.
An increase in those percentages isn’t surprising: No one ever said the vaccines were perfect and health experts have warned that as more Americans get vaccinated, they naturally will account for a greater fraction of the cases.
Walensky said Friday that well over 90% of people in U.S. hospitals with COVID-19 are unvaccinated.
CDC released two other studies Friday that signaled hints of waning protection for older adults. One examined COVID-19 hospitalizations in nine states over the summer and found protection for those 75 and older was 76% compared to 89% for all other adults. And in five Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, protection against COVID-19 hospitalizations was 95% among 18- to 64-year-olds compared to 80% among those 65 and older.
It isn't clear if the changes seen over time are because immunity is waning in people first vaccinated many months ago, that the vaccine isn’t quite as strong against delta -- or that much of the country abandoned masks and other precautions just as delta started spreading.
But U.S. health authorities will consider this latest real-world data as they decide if at least some Americans need a booster, and how soon after their last dose. Next week, advisers to the Food and Drug Administration will publicly debate Pfizer’s application to offer a third shot
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I’m embarrassed by the paltry vaccination rate in the US and this nation of crybabies that no longer see a common good. And the 655,000 and rising dead ‘Muricans. Fucking embarrassing. I have no sympathy left for freedumb.
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At that point i turned and stood the other way and just wished i didn't have school aged kids. Like we still have the worst rates in europe . This is what we are up against.
"I don't believe in covid"🤯mind fuckin blown
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Damn sad state of affairs this nation is in.
Society incurs zero additional risk by permitting abortions. Society incurs massive additional risk by allowing unvaccinated people to continue to freely expose others to it.
Governments are supposed to help manage the hardships they (usually correctly) assume society will mishandle.
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Student heckled for saying grandmother died of COVID-19 because someone didn't wear mask
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — "...I’m worried about my family. If I get COVID, I’m going to bring it to my family, and I talk to my grandparents a lot. They are higher risk than me, so I don’t want to give them COVID.
"This time last year, my grandmother, who was a former teacher at the Rutherford County school system, died of COVID because someone wasn’t wearing a mask."
Tennessee High schooler Grady Knox's passionate plea for the health of himself and others was mocked earlier this week at a Rutherford County Board of Education meeting, a scene which has drawn national attention to this hyper-divisive debate.
Knox was ridiculed, even laughed at, Tuesday evening by some in the school board meeting audience when he said his grandmother died of COVID-19 after being exposed to a person without a mask.
Knox was among the seven students who asked the Rutherford County Board of Education to require masks. Six of the students represented Central Magnet School, which serves high achievers in downtown Murfreesboro.
Knox: "This is going to continue if we don’t have a mask mandate. Contact tracing has been a big issue for students this year because all of us know that if we get contact traced we’re going to miss at least a week of school. That’s a week of instruction, a week of teacher contact that we’re going to miss.
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Knox remained calm while getting heckled. His composure impressed his father, Kerry Knox, a Murfreesboro attorney, who had a sense of disbelief that a crowd would act like that to a child.
"I wanted to defend him but he handled it so much better than I could have," said the father.
Knox's grandmother lived at Adams Place retirement community in Murfreesboro before she died of COVID-19.
Prior to that, she retired from a career as an English teacher at Oakland High, Kerry Knox said.
The board's indecision on changing the policy followed a three-hour debate that included hearing a few dozen speeches from people on both sides of the mask issue in a packed meeting room.
Knox: "I talked to one of my classmates today, and he said that he was worried about a test that he had to take because he had missed the entire last week of school and hadn’t seen his math teacher until that day. This is not something that we want to be going on in our schools."
Some of the people against masks heckled and laughed at Knox to interrupt his speech while others defended him. This video recorded moment went viral as national media outlets shared the story.
Knox initially talked about students missing out on instruction days because of the COVID-19 spread before he mentioned his concerns for his family's health.
Grady: 'We're killing people'
Knox stopped for a few seconds when the audience heckling occurred before board Chairman Coy Young spoke.
"Hey guys, we’re here to act professional," Young said before Knox continued.
"This is an avoidable issue, and by not wearing masks in schools, it’s irresponsible. We’re killing people. This is not something we should be doing for the education of our students. Thank you."
Knox was part of a group of six Central Magnet School students organized by classmate Will Severn to speak.
Grady and other speaking students impress board vice chairwoman
Knox also impressed board vice chairwoman Tiffany Johnson. She recalled hearing one man in the crowd speaking in the direction of Knox:
“Oh come on son. That’s not true.”
Johnson said Knox demonstrated maturity and professionalism, unlike some of the antimasking audience members interrupting him.
"At that moment," Johnson said, "those people should have have been removed from the meeting."
Johnson recalled looking at the Rutherford County Sheriff's deputies in hopes they'd remove the hecklers.
"It was deeply troubling," Johnson added.
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