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global1

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1. MSM Needs To Loudly Communicate This Fact To The American People......
Thu Jun 17, 2021, 10:54 AM
Jun 2021

What I've been hearing on the news is that this country is normalizing. The States are opening up and dropping the mask mandates, social distancing and everything is opening up again.

Ticker tape parades. 4th of July BBQ's. Broadway re-opening. etc, etc, etc.

We see the number of Covid cases going down. We see the hospitalizations going down. And the death count is also down.

What they fail to report is that the cases, the hospitalizations and the deaths that they ARE reporting are heavily weighted to people that haven't been vaccinated.

They need to drive that message home to the American People and they really aren't. They are concentrating on the normalization - but not on the critical info that - un-vaccinated people are the ones that are succumbing to Covid.

They are setting us up with a false sense of security and what worries me is that at some point in the future - due to the anti-vaxxers and the new virus variants - we're going to see a surge again and may even have to go back into lock-down.

We're not out of the woods yet people.

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MSM Needs To Loudly Communicate This Fact To The American People...... global1 Jun 2021 #1
Oh god, no way I could take another lockdown. Initech Jun 2021 #3
There won't be another lockdown nt notpolltested Jun 2021 #5
Yeah no, that will not end well. Initech Jun 2021 #6
Yeah, unfortunately, I agree. Hugin Jun 2021 #7
There will if the hospitals fill up Blues Heron Jun 2021 #16
If the hospitals get overrun, they will do another lockdown. They would have no choice. liberal_mama Jun 2021 #17
No Republican governor will impose any restrictions and I'm doubtful even a Democrat would notpolltested Jun 2021 #21
Once again, I agree. Hugin Jun 2021 #23
I'm not saying they would for the current pandemic, unless there is a particularly nasty variant liberal_mama Jun 2021 #27
The federal government should have mandated that Medicaid and Medicare recipients get vaccinated. Yavin4 Jun 2021 #2
The federal government can not even mandate the military get the vaccine womanofthehills Jun 2021 #20
If you're on Medicare, you are at great risk from dying from the virus. Greater than any other group Yavin4 Jun 2021 #33
Some like Michael Osterholm were also talking about a category 5 hurricane in March when in reality notpolltested Jun 2021 #4
The CDC predicted a huge wave in May BannonsLiver Jun 2021 #9
Yeah they said that about the British variant and that didn't happen. Initech Jun 2021 #10
Here's Where COVID-19 Cases Are Rising and Falling BlueWavePsych Jun 2021 #12
I personally am not shocked at all that it's red states where this is rising. Initech Jun 2021 #13
That's exactly the complacency that gets people infected BlueWavePsych Jun 2021 #11
If it were complacency BannonsLiver Jun 2021 #15
The CDC works with real time data and adjusts their models and projections accordingly. BlueWavePsych Jun 2021 #18
Part of their alarm could be our vaccines are not optimal for the Delta variant womanofthehills Jun 2021 #22
Our vaccines are primarily Pfizer / Moderna while UK is primarily Astrozenaca so you can't quite notpolltested Jun 2021 #25
Understated, But Totally Correct ProfessorGAC Jun 2021 #29
There were supposed to be so many spikes according to DU virus experts. Ace Rothstein Jun 2021 #35
We have people who desperately want it to continue BannonsLiver Jun 2021 #37
This message was self-deleted by its author BannonsLiver Jun 2021 #8
There is herd immunity in many places in the US already Johnny2X2X Jun 2021 #14
In-person schooling will be the match that lights it. roamer65 Jun 2021 #19
Maybe breakthrough cases - many kids have natural immunity womanofthehills Jun 2021 #24
Less than 1% chance of a breakthrough per their own numbers nt notpolltested Jun 2021 #26
Saying PLEASE didn't work. Begging didn't work. Pleading didn't work. dalton99a Jun 2021 #28
It's going to hit some STATES pretty hard this fall DrToast Jun 2021 #30
We all know what states those are... roamer65 Jun 2021 #31
While it's clear that the fully vaccinated don't, at this time, get as sick and perhaps don't wiggs Jun 2021 #32
I've been fully vaccinated since March, but still taking all precautions liberal_mama Jun 2021 #34
Wise. That's another thing we know...is that each individual needs to evaluate risk according wiggs Jun 2021 #36
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