This anti vaccine stuff is really sick... talk about fake news... here we have a home town example on Wacco of fake news.

Look at the scientific research on vaccines: they save lives.
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Could our COVID-19 infection and death numbers be much less due to social distancing and business shutdowns?

Interesting. I went to Advent in Daytona and picked this up: https://www.facebook.com/AdventHealthDaytonaBeach/videos/219417859472114/

I'd maybe been impressed if the videos included going into...

Shit is going to change in all directions, fast. There's been a massive, sudden, persistent destabilization. Everything is in play, everything will be refactored, all agenda's will be reshuffled,...

Wouldn't take this too seriously as Cato has libertarian views.

The Pew Center does a yearly? analysis of media bias.

Numerous media sources with a decent ranking also do periodic analysis- a simple search should turn up some decent results.

The sad...

The rapidity of the Obama administration's response to the H1N1 flu in 2009 is impressive, especially so when contrasted to the #TrumpAdministration's abject failure regarding #COVID19. Check out...

a repost from a friend's home page, very thorough, clear, conclusive:

“Here’s a little history lesson for everyone on both sides of the political divide. It’s important that we understand the...

Yes there are many people whom are not taking this crisis seriously. That has been very obvious. I'm more concerned about the people that have to work at those stores like Target etc. They are...

Every expert I know of says that the primary vector for transmitting SARS-CoV-2 is breath to breath (i.e., aerosol transmission). This is one of the first things that was known about this virus. That...

While I think this is a bit of political drama... the US Postal Service said this week they may have to shut down in June after getting no aid in the $2.2 trillion stimulus while seeing massive...

From Esther Molnar, MD - Infectious Disease - BASS Medical Group.
Dr. Molnar is board certified in both internal medicine and infectious disease.

Hey everybody,
as an infectious disease...

Another point is that often the police are disparaged... until you need their help. Then you want them, you want their help, their protection. It's good when police are integrated into the culture,...

Coronavirus cure? Well I know a guy, who knows a guy who has a friend with a surefire cure.
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Hydroxychloroquine, a medicine for malaria that President Donald Trump has touted as a treatment for coronavirus, was no more effective than conventional care, a small study found.

The report...

The Atlantic
Derek Thompson, March 21, 2020

Denmark’s Idea Could Help the World Avoid a Great Depression
While the White House and lawmakers haggle over the terms of an emergency...

Please understand that not everyone reading this has high speed internet access. Indeed- many in West County have overpriced and limited satellite internet or rely on cellular data- where your...

Hmm. Could it be that Trump cut the funding to the CDC and NAID - especially the global pandemic groups working in multiple countries- including CHINA?

The lack of testing has nothing to do with...

whoa, whoa, whoa... back up a moment. Infection does not equal hospitalization. Indeed- the vast majority of infections seem mild. This was more in reference to the number of infections- including...

:waccosun: Must see! :waccosun:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojrtwXqqc6g

@Barry

While I agree with pretty much everything your post... talking to family and friends on the east coast and midwest... whiles some states are closing restaurants/bars/gyms/theaters...etc......

cyberanvil wrote:
Rush Limbaugh is a very ignorant man - and Yes, he has a lot of power & influence. You, on the other hand, cyberanvil, have next to no power & influence, yet you - like Rush -...

Hmm. Let's see- you're not concerned that Sanders is a year older then Biden and had a heard attack a few months ago? after which- after having previously promised to release health records suddenly...

Hmm. I actually opposed the Iraq War Resolution at the time - and still think it was the wrong vote. However... my point was that I think the article, written by a Sanders supporter and being used as...

The NYTimes (Frank Bruni) wrote on Sunday that “Bernie Has Already Won The Primary” - simply because of the issues being addressed - universal health care; affordability of post-secondary education;...

Well, while I kind of think you're trolling a bit here... I'll still give somewhat of an answer...

First, to be clear- Kamala Harris did not call Biden a racist - she challenged him over his...

There’s be a recent fuss about that I privately requested a member (Mayacaman) to refrain further posting about Colloidal Silver and the Hudder Clark “Zapper” with regard to the Coronavirus after...

I'm sorry- but there is not a single article in respectable science supporting the use of colloidal silver. To the contrary- there are many showing it's harms. Yes- there's lots of claims from the...

it's a misconception that homeless services are attracting people from elsewhere.
in fact, 87% of people polled in the 2019 homeless census said that they had already been living in sonoma county...

I see it as important to "check" one's tendency to incline the mind toward conspiracy theories (inner suspicions based on past beliefs). In saying this I don't mean to be dismissive of what is going...

Ray, SARS was primarily active in 2002-03; Avian flu had been around much longer than that in various forms and 2008 wasn't particularly noteworthy; Swine flu was more prevalent in 2009; Mers was...

Apparently, it IS free if you're a bank, or a corporation, or Big Pharma, or a tech giant, etc. They don't even have to pay taxes to cover their bailouts. It's the rest of us who do.

Well, I was talking about the money side of it, which I guess you are too. I'll try to put it another way. If one decides that everyone "deserves" quality health and dental care, it's going to cost...

It will cost what it will cost, but there are several reasons, which I'm sure you can think of, why it will end up being cheaper than a system with a dozen different insurance companies and pharma...

A major factor in housing becoming unaffordable, is that real estate became an investment tool. People & companies started buying properties, not to live in, but as an investment. They showed...

But honestly Bernie isn't FDR anyway. I checked out the CATO "think Tank" website. Libratarianish spin. Less government right now would be good but in general I think this argument that CATO puts out...

Thank you for the edifying Krugman article, Cyber. But how does that jibe with your previous more critical post?

In any case, if Sanders does become the nominee and has to debate Trump, he will...

Why is Bernie calling himself a Democratic Socialist?

"While it might not sound as dramatic, what Sanders is isn’t a socialist—democratic or otherwise—it’s a social democrat. Social democracy is...

The concept plan shows a substantial setback from the river, which is depicted as a vegetated corridor.

Where does the EIR say that the river will be carved into a wide trench?

Sid Commons...

Legalize trailer, tv, tiny home living!

Good post Podfish. And I, to some part, agree. I was raised in east coast farming community... where ethics are a bit different..

But where do we end up where people don't do all they can for...

Or maybe it's the lack of light and sunshine, relatively speaking, that causes the unhappiness and depression, kind of a perpetual SAD if you will. It seems to be the case across most of northern...

And here we have a perfect example of why Facebook et al don't want to be held responsible for the BS people post...

I take particular umbrage at this because I have family and friends who work in...

Bernie isn't a socialist. But Republicans clearly are. Let's quit circling the wagons and shooting in.
US taxpayers subsidising world's biggest fossil fuel companies

Shell, ExxonMobil and...

This seems to be a rapidly evolving area of law. Locally there was an injunction signed by Santa Rosa and the county, with homeless plaintiffs aided by lawyers from homeless action, after the last...

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/nytlogo152x23.gif
Bernie Sanders Isn’t a Socialist
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Feb. 13, 2020

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Another great example of a leftist circular firing squad. I'm most interested in a legal structure where good personal health choices are financially rewarded. It's like 2/3rds of our health care...

What's really interesting about this is that our county, and I assume many others, has found ways to boot homeless, play wackamole with the least among us, despite recent court rulings. I assume that...

it's worth taking a close look at why hundreds of people would rather live in terrible circumstances in the cold, wet winter rather than take a bed in an emergency warehouse shelter.
i think it...

Some of these ideas are very nice... but a significant portion of the unsheltered people are dysfunctional. This includes the mentally ill, those with health problems, drug dependent, alcoholics,...