fantom Loc: Colorado

Some are tongue in cheek while others show some thought and merit a hmmmm.



Not one politician has died

from the virus,

lost their job,

or had their business looted.

Or, missed a haircut.

Or wears a mask

unless on camera

Y’all know you’re being played right?

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Remember how we panicked when we couldn’t find any toilet paper? What are we going to do when we can’t find a cop?

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NYC just defunded the

very people that ran into the burning Towers on 9/11.

Think about it!!!!

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If we all started wearing masks with “Trump 2020” on them, how long before experts decide we don’t need to wear them any longer?

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Pretty wild how we used to

eat cake after someone

had blown on it……..

Good Times……………..

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For the first time in American History, American History is

no longer allowed in America .

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I don’t want to know “Why mobs are tearing down America ’s monuments.” I would rather know, “Why are we letting them?”

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Watching our country being destroyed by our own people is the worst thing I’ve ever seen.

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Nothing says “unity” like playing a separate National Anthem for black people and white people at NFL games.

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If you still think that this is about Democrats vs Republicans...

It’s Not

……….

The battle is….

Progressive Socialism vs

The Republic

of the United States of America .

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If black lives really mattered;

they’d be tearing down crack houses instead of statues.

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Quixdraw Loc: x

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

will47 Loc: Indianapolis, IN

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

[quote=fantom]Some are tongue in cheek while others show some thought and merit a hmmmm.



Not one politician has died

from the virus,

lost their job,

or had their business looted.

Or, missed a haircut.

Or wears a mask

unless on camera

Y’all know you’re being played right?

Someone else sent it to you, so you post it without checking it out:

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/politicians-have-died-of-covid-19/

tramsey Loc: Texas

[quote=JohnSwanda]


I can't help but laugh at you. Leave it to you to come up with a dufus remark

fantom Loc: Colorado

Why the surprise? That is the usual common practice from him, I wouldn't expect less..

drainbamage

Very thought provoking! Regarding the first item in your post about wearing masks...here are some thoughts on why some people may not want to wear masks:

We are told that wearing a mask is a courtesy to others, so if you are infected you won't pass it on to others. So, lets take a look at your mask. It is actually like a sieve. The virus is small enough to slip through the micro gaps in the material of your mask - even the best of masks - and inhaled in to your lungs. Particles that circulate around the outside of your mask that is not sealed to the skin on your face are also inhaled. If you are infected with a virus (any virus), this is what will happen to you when you wear your mask: Your mask stops a lot of the virus as you exhale. That means the virus particles are clinging to the inside of your mask. The virus attacking you is not just one little particle - it is thousands of them accumulating and reproducing in your upper nasal passages and upper throat. Every time you breathe out you end up with more and more virus particles on the inside of your mask. Therefore, when you breathe back in you are infecting yourself over and over, resulting in a far more severe illness than if you just inhaled the virus once from another person.

If politicians are not wearing masks, maybe this is one of the reasons why. Should we be adhering to their mandates that we MUST wear masks, when they, themselves are not?

fantom Loc: Colorado

Interesting but I question the statement about reinfecting yourself. Could you provide the source for this analysis? Also, I have always been curious how the virus reproduces if it is not a living organism. Was that mentioned in the article you read?

drainbamage

Dr. Russell Blaylock, author of The Blaylock Wellness Report newsletter, is a nationally recognized board-certified neurosurgeon, health practitioner, author, and lecturer. He has authored four books: Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life, Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients, and his most recent work, Cellular and Molecular Biology of Autism Spectrum Disorders.

https://fort-russ.com/2020/05/dr-blaylock-face-masks-pose-serious-risks-to-the-healthy-hypoxia-and-hypercapnia/

Snip:

"There is another danger to wearing these masks on a daily basis, especially if worn for several hours. When a person is infected with a respiratory virus, they will expel some of the virus with each breath. If they are wearing a mask, especially an N95 mask or other tightly fitting mask, they will be constantly rebreathing the viruses, raising the concentration of the virus in the lungs and the nasal passages. We know that people who have the worst reactions to the coronavirus have the highest concentrations of the virus early on. And this leads to the deadly cytokine storm in a selected number.

It gets even more frightening. Newer evidence suggests that in some cases the virus can enter the brain. In most instances it enters the brain by way of the olfactory nerves (smell nerves), which connect directly with the area of the brain dealing with recent memory and memory consolidation. By wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain."

This article does not address your question about viruses reproducing. Viruses do "replicate" and mutate. There are lots of articles on how this happens. From googling: "In the lytic cycle, the virus attaches to the host cell and injects its DNA. Using the host's cellular metabolism, the viral DNA begins to replicate and form proteins. Then fully formed viruses assemble. These viruses break, or lyse, the cell and spread to other cells to continue the cycle."

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

drainbamage

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