The Four Color Media Monitor

Masks may reduce the risk of getting infected; their rel importance is reducing the risk of spreading it in the period after you are infectious but before noticeable symptoms develop. They help but are not a guarantee. Any more than assarbelt guarantees you won't get killed in a car crash.

When wishing Melania and her husband a safe recovery, I hope you have some wishes for his aides and other people in republican circles that he irresponsibly infected.

Trump having covid does not validate the damage to the economy caused by the Democrats' draconian and unnecessary lockdowns.

Trump actually warned of the need to prepare for the virus in January. The Democrats called it a nothing burger, condemned him for banning travel from China, and said it was just the flu.

Pelosi staged a photo op in a crowd in Chinatown without a mask, and encouraged everyone else to do the same.

Under the 10th Amendment, the president has limited and very specific authority. State and local government have broader powers. Trump has probably done everything that he had the legal authority to do, and even Dr. Fauci admitted that he could not think of anything more that the POTUS could have done.

Trump sent a hospital ship to New York, but the governor instead ordered covid-positive patients into nursing homes, placing them in close quarters with people who had weak immune systems.

But the official PC party line is now that we are in a pandemic, and that it is all Trump's fault.

Biden, not Trump, is trying to avoid debating. Biden cannot even form a coherent sentence.

And Trump did not "lie in a sick bed." He worked in an office in WRAMC.

And probably did more work while hospitalized than Obama has done in his entire life.

You are really doing some retroactive rewriting of history.

Trump said it would all go away in the summer like magic. And the states were desperately peading for Trump's help, and some central coordination of response to the virus, while Trump was going all not my problem. And playing favorites with the states, helping the ones who cowtowed to him and screwing over the rest.

You cant blame Pelosi for trying to neutralize the anti-Chinese prejudice that was coming out then; the local Chinese were taking more mask-type precautions than most, so Chinatown was probably the safest place to be at the time. The right wing MSM was encouraging and is encouraging people not to take any precautions.

The only one actually engaging in retroactive rewriting of history is you, anonymous. And for the record, the state of Georgia actually reopened its economy by May, allowed a partial relaxation of lockdowns, by order of Governor Brian Kemp, so we didn't beg help for Trump anyhow. And for the record, various doctors have made it very clear that the death rate was overblown, by the likes of Fauci and other Deep State operatives.

You know what, how about you just get out of here, since you have nothing to contribute here other than trying to force this site to go left wing against the owner's wishes.

By order of Governor Kemp, Georgia is still under a state of emergency.

Death is death; it is not left wing or right wing.

"By order of Governor Kemp, Georgia is still under a state of emergency."

At least we're actually WORKING now. Back in late March through April, all of us at GoodWill were laid off, and the economy was shut down. Heck, all restaurants other than maybe fast food joints were even closed down entirely. It was thanks to Kemp that we even HAVE jobs right now, even with the added baggage that is social distancing and all of that.

"Death is death; it is not left wing or right wing."

Of course death is death, but the actual NUMBERS were faked. Or maybe I should have you read these bits:

*https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/has-the-us-covid-19-death-count-been-exaggerated-by-100000

*https://www.theblaze.com/conservative-review/horowitz-lied-6-facts-change-everything-know-sars-cov-2

*https://townhall.com/columnists/johnrlottjr/2020/05/16/the-us-is-dramatically-overcounting-coronavirus-deaths-n2568925

Heck, even the CDC indicated recently that most of the "high numbers" of COVID-19 deaths came from co-morbidities where COVID-19 played very little if any role in the cause of death , and very few had COVID-19 being directly and solely responsible for the deaths.

Georgia had a high wave of infections over the summer after it partially reopened. And Trump is not doing well in your state right now.

Any disease strikes hardest at the elderly and the weak. If you removed from the flu death rate all the people who had comorbidities, no one would seem to die of it either. But, if you bear in mind that over 40% of Americans are obese, most Americans have co morbidities. The Hollywood actors with personal trainers have a better chance of surviving than most, I guess; not really reassuring.

If you shoot a casual stranger, it is no defence to the murder charge to say they were old and would have died of cancer in two or three years anyway.

"Any disease strikes hardest at the elderly and the weak. If you removed from the flu death rate all the people who had comorbidities, no one would seem to die of it either. But, if you bear in mind that over 40% of Americans are obese, most Americans have co morbidities. The Hollywood actors with personal trainers have a better chance of surviving than most, I guess; not really reassuring."

I don't buy into that figure, to be honest. I've seen plenty of customers at Goodwill who if anything are very slim, and of management at the Sandy Springs Goodwill currently, only two of them are anywhere close to obese. The other three are very slim overall. And in my case, I'm if anything dangerously underweight, skin and bones, and thanks to my Ulcerative Colitis, I'm barely even able to put on a little bit of weight and if anything tend to LOSE weight shortly afterwards even when eating enough calories to ensure most people can gain some weight (heck, also thanks to my UC, I'm also taking immuno-suppressors in order to effectively combat the condition, drugs I utterly HATE BTW, which means I'm if anything even MORE at risk at getting COVID-19, yet I haven't even gotten it. And thanks to bureaucratic crap, I'm not even taking any injections right now and may end up having to switch to another immuno-suppressor drug in the near future.). Want to know what my current weight is? 104 pounds. And just as an FYI, my dad actually got tested positive for COVID-19 back in April, even followed the mandatory 2 week sheltering in place as well. When he took the antibody test when the two weeks were up, it turns out he lacked ANY antibodies indicating that he even had the infection. I've even heard accounts on how some people "tested positive" for COVID-19 despite never actually getting tested for the condition thanks to long waiting lines and leaving before they could be called in.

And use your head, we don't need ANY of those protections with the flu (and if anything, the flu was more deadly than COVID-19), certainly not enough to require locking down the economy and doing extremely pointless social distancing and all of that. If we didn't need that with the flu, why the heck would we need it for something that's got less of a kill rate, even if we go by co-morbidities.

"If you shoot a casual stranger, it is no defence to the murder charge to say they were old and would have died of cancer in two or three years anyway."

That's apples and oranges, and you know it.