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by surge 7y ago
There was very clear evidence, the WHO were just ignoring it like they pretend Taiwan isn't it's own independent entity, they won't talk about Taiwan or interact with them for the sake of politics. It's no coincidence th
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No its not, for instance just population density is a huge factor in the spread of a virus. If you live in an area where people are fairly isolated or travel outside their region very little, than you don't need to do the same extreme
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The much fewer cases thing was because doctors were being told to lie about the numbers or attribute it to viral pneumonia, they were carrying off bodies and quarantining sections of cities elsewhere too, you just had to look at WeChat to s
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The problem is, the WHO does, they even said this thing wasn't transmitted person to person. And they're supposed to be the authority everyone was saying to listen to.
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French seized supplies bound for Britain. Everyone is doing it. You always protect your own citizens first, then once you're in a position of strength, then you help your neighbor. If you're both in a hole, you have to get out of
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It's worth mentioning some states have caps on how much insurance can make, in other words if they're not absorbing a base amount of risk, they have to give the money back because people are paying too much to insure against somet
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This was one of the things that was lost with the decline of scouting. I remember quite a bit of training between life guard training and first aid training for dealing with common injuries in the wilderness, dealing with shock, etc. Yeah I
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I have a nice moss carpet in and little plants that bloom purple flowers in the spring. I think perfect grass myth is something that should be done away with, often times if you let the natural plants grow in they keep other weeds like dand
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He kind of did, they just took advantage of the governments late response.
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Some of the bottles were going for $70. It wasn't a marginal mark up. He also probably bought the entire supply in a store, so he wasn't correcting inefficiency. And the AG too the supply and donated it, not him.
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He's selling things retail, he's a retailer, the fact he doesn't have a license for the retail business adds to the charges.
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As mentioned in another comment, its a loan, not free cash. Investment banks will have to pay it back afterwards.
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Right, SS is already in a risky position, most millenials question if it'll even be standing when it comes to their turn (especially if population drops since they're having less children who will pay in), what they're sugges
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I'm sorry, but its in court records under sworn testimony in Ukraine and the NYT reported on it back IN 2015. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/corruption-u... The Mueller investi
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He continued the war, he didn't pull out as promised. Got involved in Syria. He kept Guantanamo open. He upped the number of drone strikes. Knowingly killed a 16 year old US citizen who was not an enemy combatant or in a country like I
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Replace Mumble with Discord, start a server, or join a friends. VR chat is for memes in 3D. It should be mentioned most major online games have voice chat integrated now as well.
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This is the part where I remind people that Obama drone striked a 16 year old US citizen without trial in a non active war zone and a cafe full of civilians because someone bad might be there (and wasn't so just killed a bunch of innoc
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Jimmy Dore, Tim Pool, and hundreds of others on the left have explained so well what was happening and is still happening. People who talk to people, not people who sit in high rises offices in major expensive cities and listen to themselve
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The whole affair with Biden's son in a board position and Biden interfering in the investigation of the company according to testimony in a Ukrainian court. It's what Trump was discussing on the phone call he was impeached over. P
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You do realize she was jailed and charged under Obama right? This was the President that was supposed to shine a light on corruption and protect whistleblowers when they first campaigned. The joke here is you think there's that much of
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So do it again. Honestly though, I think the impeachment just pointed out the Ukraine stuff about as much as it pointed out Trump's phone call shenanigans, it wasn't good for them politically to keep at it, his approval rating was
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Actually the way to settle differences between the branches is to use the third branch, the Judicial branch. Congress takes them to supreme/federal court, which decides if the subpoenas are valid and would then enforce the subpoenas an
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The test accuracy of the WHO test as far as I understood it was good if someone was already experiencing symptoms once viral load was high enough. The bigger issue was false negatives, people would get released from quarantine measures, the
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This comment didn't age well.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/2ALiberals/comments/fgvw64/the_medi... This is exactly what I mean.
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> Nearly every day there are headlines that focus on Trump's persona rather than the substance (or lack thereof) of his policies, and the paper seems to prefer to publish stories that appeal to its in-group rather than stories that
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Stop making me defend Trump, you guys are ignorant, or willfully misrepresenting the context. In NYT, they featured this "opinion" piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/opinion/coronavirus-t
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The difference is, here we're allowed to speak up, even the CDC to some extent, counter the President's opinion. The facts are still available No one has that opportunity in China when it comes to Xi Xinping's message, if the
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I thought the comment was trying to get factories out of China and more manufacturing happening domestically (especially now that we're seeing the downsides to globalism with medical supply issues, etc). That's more or less been t
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Considering how much carbon footprint it creates, I'm not sure the trade off was worth it. I'm happy they're shutting it down for now. Maybe once everyone is on renewables/cleaner energy sources it'd be a project wo

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