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Hmmmm. Interesting, coming from you. It didn’t. And instead of using the proper name, you choose to demonize a certain group and culture.

Even when infected with politics, as it has become, that center still won’t use the racist canard that you uttered.

Hoax as to the first sentence. Looks the CDC disagrees with you and calls is “coronavirus” or “COVID-19.” https://www.coronavirus.gov If you’re talking about those two guys who were caught on video on Hertel Ave. over the weekend, I tend to think it was an isolated incident. Probably not worth 180,000 dead and trashed economy for middle and lower income workers. But each is entitled to his or her own opinion.

Hoax on the latter part. I’m a vegetarian. And I doubt you’re a fast food worker. Dopey opinions on your end, to be sure, but you are not a dope.

Lots of interesting takes here. Most either misread the question or ignored the “we” therein. The question isn’t whether you (as an individual) are better off now than you were four years ago. It’s whether we, as a nation and a people, are so better off. My answer has been registered: it is patently obvious that we are not better off.

Not sure what you’re getting at. Maybe those dudes you pay $450/hour to do your legal work can clarify.

Not used magic to try to stop a pandemic. Or repurpose household cleaners as medicinal applications for the same purpose. Isn’t it ironic that an “evangelical” president relied on magic in this instance?

Hate Week ended last Thursday, meaning that your racism is untimely. That aside, typically a question isn’t properly answered with a question. Please keep your racism to yourself and answer the question on the floor, namely, whether we are better off now than we were four years ago. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

It’s pretty tough to take your view that “leftists” are “stupid” seriously when you pluralize Americans improperly. FYI. *** In any event, lots of crickets here, but plenty of time to post conspiratorial trash in other places. Looks like the verdict is in: the lives of everyday Americans are not better than they were four years ago.

Sorry to hear that. Have a nice day.

ST if Jones isn’t ready.

1. infection rate and death count have increased concomitantly with protests. But where is the data linking protests to that increase? Could it be that refusal to social distance and refusal to wear masks in “none-protest” contexts contributed to the uptick? 2. Along those lines, you assume that nobody (or at least that a critical mass) of protesters did not wear masks. I don’t know that we have data to that effect, either. Assuming (safely, I think) that political fault lines apply here, my guess is that the vast majority of protesters were masked. Sturgis . . . I doubt. Tulsa we know the opposite to be true. 3. Your point about hypocrisy regarding lack of outcry is fair. But you’re also hypocritical in your defense of Sturgis. It’s essentially an “our wrong is actually right because someone else was wrong, too” argument. And, you seem to contend that the protests spawned a significant increase in infection rate and relevant deaths. By that logic, Surgis should be condemned. And by the same logic, Tulsa (mention of which you conspicuously avoided) was a travesty of, among other things, leadership. I don’t disagree with this, but by the same logic you have to stand for the shutdown of schools, bars, restaurants, and gyms until this is over. And it is reasonable for him to complain that his business model has been significantly disrupted by the federal action and inaction with respect to the pandemic.

Super interesting. I thought about moving on from Brown now that Diggs is here and Davis apparently had a stellar camp. But I don’t think they’re going to do anything along those lines this year. Now, the idea of putting your best 11 on the field and having 4 of those 11 be WRs? That might be something to talk about.

This one is interesting. Hard to judge based on absence of televised practice. But interesting nonetheless. You might be right. Why keep a 5th round QB who looks like he probably tops out as career backup based on first NFL camp when he’s, shall we say, perhaps a bit of a divisive figure in the locker room?

Kroft is guaranteed this year, right? And is Sweeney a PUP candidate? Might be a nice way to stash him for the year and to use him as a Kroft replacement next year. I think we’re going to see one of Duke/Foster traded. And it wouldn’t shock me if they keep Foster and go light at RB if Jones’s injury is going to linger into the season. So I guess Foster not being cut is my shock.

It was 2-1 the first time through, right? Not a good look for the “2” in that trio if that was the case. Oops.

Hoax. Or at least not yet. Looks like the DC Circuit is going to let the trial judge proceed as planned. That plan almost surely involves a slow-roll until about February 1 of next year, at which point the trial judge will hope that different set of (non-partisan) eyes at the DOJ will have reviewed the case.

Re: your fist question, the answer is that it probably depends on the person. Most “anti-Trumpers” (I prefer the terms “pro-American” and “pro-Constitution,” but I digress) probably disagree with those initiatives. The point about “distraction” with which you take issue is not relevant to the discussion of whether COVID-19 is a hoax and whether communist arsonist mass deaths are a separate hoax. It was made as an explanation of why Trump would want to create the communist arsonist hoax: to distract from his tragic and most unfortunate misidentification of COVID-19 as a hoax. Carry on.

Sadly, this is true. Obesity makes COVID-19 much more dangerous here than it might in a different country with different dietary and exercise practices.

I agree with the first three and probably the first four. Disagree strongly with respect to Paris, and am sort of neutral on Iran (I didn’t like it to begin with, but it probably was the best of the bad basket of options. Time will tell). But the question remains, as Americans, are our lives better than they were four years ago? I don’t know about you, but the fact that my kid can’t go to school this year isn’t outweighed by the fact that Greece (I’m assuming it’s a NATO slacker) upped its contributions to NATO. So the question remains, those accomplishments/improvements aside, are our lives better than they were four years ago?

I’m not sure with what you take issue. We agree that the response to this point has been a series of half measures. Your compliant with respect to the “protests” is not founded upon data. One must wonder why you have taken issue with those gatherings when there have been other, large-scale collections in which the crowd easily outnumbered that gathered at an aforementioned protest. Off the top of my head, I submit that the recent Sturgis gathering fits that bill, as does even President Trump’s ill-attended Tulsa rally. So I assume that you believe that the decisions to hold those events was utterly irresponsible and representative of poor leadership. Except for, you know, the people who were down for the count for months and who have, among other things, lung scarring.

Inquiries irrelevant to the hoax questions before us. Carry on.

Hmmm. Seems pretty hoaxy to me. If I may, the semantical gymnastics in which you engage to avoid the conclusion that Trump believed COVID-19 to be a hoax are undermined by the lack of care and attention he paid to the issue in its early stages (e.g., attempting to wish the problem away [“15 cases, soon to be zero” is a particularly damning quote] and speculating that magic might solve the problem [One day it will just “magically disappear”]). Now, nobody disagrees that this amorphous Antifa organization and any related organizations shouldn’t go around killing anyone. If they or their members have killed anyone, that is wrong. The point here is that there is a myopic focus on perhaps, at most, a handful of Antifa/BLM/communist arsonist deaths, and blithe ignorance of the nearly 200,000 deaths caused by COVID-19. Surely some of those deaths could not have been avoided even had the best of precautions been taken. But surely there is a massive number of needless deaths that can be attributed to federal inaction and ignorance. That point underlines this thread, and your reasonable, non-hoaxy comments on the merits would be appreciated. Looked out the window this morning and things are copacetic in this democrat-run city. At least insofar as nothing is ablaze. But we remain mired in a pandemic, which is a much greater threat to life and property than is a contrived concern with respect to communist arsonists. Continue discussion.

So you agree that COVID-19 is not a hoax? Do you also acknowledge that communist arsonist mass casualties are a hoax? (And, to the extent it provides fertile ground for discussion, your quote misses the point. Doing things “right” obviously would have reduced casualties. Otherwise there would be no point in briefings, exploration of reasonable treatments, PPE dispersal, social distancing, and vaccines, among other things. We would simply have gone about our business and accepted our fate, whatever “luck” dictated it may have been. Consequently, the notion that the mass casualties caused by COVID-19 could not have been mitigated by prompt and effective federal action is . . . a hoax.) Eyes on the prize here. COVID-19 is not a hoax, correct? And communist arsonist mass casualties are a hoax, correct?

Meanwhile, the alt-wrong rejects science, law, and truth.