Leave it to you guys to clutter a basketball thread with politics. Take this to GD.
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One more thing to nitpick here, anyone else notice the doublespeak here? The American Spectator whines about immigrants coming here while bemoaning (white) Americans for failing to take the **** jobs for **** pay that's currently being offered. Um...
Again, this is the type of analysis we've all come to expect from hack "conservative" sources that are (more) motivated to placate to white grievance and billionaire interests than actually make any intellectually honest conservative argument. What I mean by that is that the free market is telling employers right now to raise wages and improve working conditions or they won't have enough labor. It's pretty clear that's what the free market is saying. "People don't want to go back to ****** jobs for ****** wages", especially when it exacerbates issues related to the pandemic (sickness, healthcare, daycare). But rather than engage with this, it's just easier to blame Biden, pretty basic unemployment insurance benefits, and the poorest. And for the simple minded like @Scat and @ekimebirt, a comfortable easy and simple explanation for a far more complex problem.
Brent offers better analysis than the Spectator, and he's a comedian:
Again, this is the type of analysis we've all come to expect from hack "conservative" sources that are (more) motivated to placate to white grievance and billionaire interests than actually make any intellectually honest conservative argument. What I mean by that is that the free market is telling employers right now to raise wages and improve working conditions or they won't have enough labor. It's pretty clear that's what the free market is saying. "People don't want to go back to ****** jobs for ****** wages", especially when it exacerbates issues related to the pandemic (sickness, healthcare, daycare). But rather than engage with this, it's just easier to blame Biden, pretty basic unemployment insurance benefits, and the poorest. And for the simple minded like @Scat and @ekimebirt, a comfortable easy and simple explanation for a far more complex problem.
Brent offers better analysis than the Spectator, and he's a comedian:
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I have read and listened to several critical pieces on Biden since he became the President. I don't "watch" the news. Not on live TV and not on Youtube or the equivalent.
You mean by trying to lead by example, even if it is kinda silly? Yeah, I'll take that over a dude that purposefully and admittedly downplayed the deadliest infectious disease in a century for strictly (and wildly miscalculated) political reasons
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Th issue of crowd size is clearly—and throughly—interbedded with State mandates and the interpretation of science on the coronavirus. That’s politics, son. ****ing obvious, really.
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Actual deaths solely by Corona dwarf in comparison to any other year of the standard flu.
Also, masks will not and do not stop any virus from coming into contact with you or anyone else. Not how viruses work, not even in the slightest.
Don't @ me cause I don't care about your liberal response.
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Good lord…
Damn, that's some silly **** that is easily and routinely refuted by... wait for it... actual doctors and scientists. But who cares about those snobby ivory tower elitists when you've got a Facebook bubble to reinforce stupidity.
Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19
Figures present excess deaths associated with COVID-19 at the national and state levels.
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He wants to define deaths solely cause by COVID differently than deaths are counted for the flu or anything else ever. So at that point you have to ask yourself if this is something worth having a conversation with him about.View attachment 10652Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19
Figures present excess deaths associated with COVID-19 at the national and state levels.
He wants to say that covid combined with an age over 65 means that you were probably going to die of old age at any moment and COVID didn't really kill you. He wants to say that COVID and a BMI over 30 means that you probably deserve to die you stupid fat pig so I don't want to count those ones either. He wants to say that COVID and diabetes means that you died from diabetes and that any old thing that came around and got you sick was going to kill you.
So yeah. You're not going to pop his bubble.
Well my question to him is, if these people were about to drop dead anyways, why did 2020 have so many surplus deaths, starting... oh... right around the beginning of the pandemic?
Shouldn't the death rate have remained roughly the same according to his theory?
Yeah I mean I agree with you and have used that exact argument. But he seems to have made it clear that he knows everything he needs to know and isn't going to be corrupted by your liberal lies. Everything he said is easily disproven BS so obviously he's not going to let facts get in the way of his opinion.