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RE: Truck driver? Yeah, looks like it!

No harm in having ambition, but it will take determination, hard work and some luck. We all need to set a goal in life, the secret to attaining that goal is to take small steps and always be willing to take risks.
As the saying goes, "Less haste more speed".

RE: Truck driver? Yeah, looks like it!

Well if you can afford the time without pay I would go for it, having a full commercial licensee will always be useful should you ever become unemployed again, while looking for a more suitable job. You may actually find driving an enjoyable career, but it does need stamina and someone who is good with their own company.

RE: Christmas 2020

I thought Christmas had been cancelled for this year

RE: Bye Bye Donnie

Hilariously, Trump is so convinced he will lose bigly he has now said he will stand for re-election in 2024
Like he would even get through the initial primaries with the GOP turning against him daily right now.

RE: Truck driver? Yeah, looks like it!

Why 4 years? In the UK you can get a Class 1 HGV (Heavy Goods Vehicle) license in less than ten weeks, always a useful license to hold and keep up to date, As driving is a job that rarely disappears whatever the social constancies dictate.
Even today with heavy covd restrictions I read that HGV drivers are still needed nationwide.

RE: Rudy Guiliani's daughter speaks out against her dad and urges all to vote for Joe Biden

Private coward only ever posts to try and force his lies and fake opinions onto others, Jim, on the other hand, only posts informational blogs that tend to be true, he rarely denigrates those with opposing views, unless provoked
The Coward spreads lies and then attempts (poorly) to belittle those who debunk his fake posts, he doesn't have the intelligence to understand his own lies and brainwashed misinformation.
Maybe he needs a real job to take his mind out of the sewer?

RE: == Take 30 Minutes To Watch This Video Before You Vote If You Care About The Truth ==

If it were about the truth, you would be the last person to post it lol

RE: FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Thousands of scientists & physicians sign letter condemning Democrat's lockdowns

RE: FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Thousands of scientists & physicians sign letter condemning Democrat's lockdowns

Dr Stephen Griffin, Associate Professor in the School of Medicine, University of Leeds, said:

“The Barrington Declaration, as per the recent letter to UK government CMOs, seeks to reduce the impact of interventions taken to combat the SARS-CoV2 pandemic upon healthcare systems and the most disadvantaged amongst our population. This is clearly a well-intentioned movement, and nobody can deny that COVID-19 has highlighted inequality and instability across a great many aspects of our society.

“Sadly, focusing on the pandemic rather than the cultures and environments in which it arose ignores long-standing issues in society that existed prior to, and likely long after the pandemic has passed. Moreover, the means by which the signatories propose to achieve their aim relies upon achieving so-called “herd immunity”, which at best is currently a theoretical concept for SARS-CoV2. By contrast, societal restrictions combined with effective rapid testing measures have effectively curtailed the spread of the virus in several countries.

“The signatories propose that members of the population deemed well enough to endure infection should be allowed to operate normally, enjoying full access to work, education, the arts, hospitality etc. By contrast, those deemed “vulnerable” to severe COVID-19 are to be somehow protected from the infection. This approach has profound ethical, logistical and scientific flaws:

“Ethically, history has taught us that the notion of segregating society, even perhaps with good initial intentions, usually ends in suffering. For want of a better term, the “vulnerable” amongst us come from all walks of life, have families and friends and deserve, fundamentally, to be treated equally amongst society. It is interesting to note that the signatories are not proposing that BAME or other COVID-susceptible groups be segregated along similar lines.

“Logistically, how on earth are we to both identify those at risk and effectively separate them from the rest of society? Basing risk primarily upon risk of death completely ignores the profound morbidity associated with the pandemic, including what we now term as “long COVID”, plus the criteria by which one or more risk factors might predispose towards severe disease remain both uncertain and incredibly diverse – we have only lived with this virus for ten months, we simply do not understand it well enough to attempt this with any surety.

“Scientifically, no evidence from our current understanding of this virus and how we respond to it in any way suggests that herd immunity would be achievable, even if a high proportion of the population were to become infected. We know that responses to natural infection wane, and that reinfection occurs and can have more severe consequences than the first. It is hoped that vaccines will provide superior responses, and indeed vaccination remains the only robust means of achieving herd immunity. Moreover, in the US, with its high end (albeit restrictive) healthcare system, over seven million confirmed infections have occurred to date, yet this represents only a small percentage of that population and no evidence of herd immunity is apparent despite over 200K deaths and untold morbidity. What then, might be the cost of attempting the strategy proposed in this document?

“We are all exhausted by the pandemic and are rightly angry at the notion of potentially enduring a second round of local and national lockdowns or other restrictions. However, we must not conflate the failures of certain governments to capitalise upon the sacrifices people make during lockdowns with these measures themselves being ineffective. Policies are enacted by those that govern, are multifactorial in nature, and so do not mean that contributing strategies are themselves flawed.

RE: FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Thousands of scientists & physicians sign letter condemning Democrat's lockdowns

Dr Michael Head, Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton, said:

“The Barrington Declaration is based upon a false premise – that governments and the scientific community wish for extensive lockdowns to continue until a vaccine is available. Lockdowns are only ever used when transmission is high, and now that we have some knowledge about how best to handle new outbreaks, most national and subnational interventions are much ‘lighter’ than the full suppressions we have seen for example in the UK across the spring of 2020.

“Those behind the Barrington Declaration are advocates of herd immunity within a population. They state that “Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal”, with the idea being that somehow the vulnerable of society will be protected from ensuing transmission of a dangerous virus. It is a very bad idea. We saw that even with intensive lockdowns in place, there was a huge excess death toll, with the elderly bearing the brunt of that, and 20-30% of the UK population would be classed as vulnerable to a severe COVID-19 infection. Around 8% of the UK population has some level of immunity to this novel coronavirus, and that immunity will likely wane over time and be insufficient to prevent a second infection. A strategy for herd immunity would also promote further inequalities across society, for example across the Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. The declaration also ignores the emerging burdens of ‘long COVID’. We know that many people, even younger populations who suffered from an initially mild illness, are suffering from longer-term consequences of a COVID-19 infection.

“Independent SAGE are among the many scientists who have eloquently pointed out1 the many reasons why these initiatives are ultimately harmful and misleading as to the scientific evidence base. There are countries who are managing the pandemic relatively well, including South Korea and New Zealand, and their strategies do not include simply letting the virus run wild whilst hoping that the asthmatic community and the elderly can find somewhere to hide for 12 months. They have a proactive approach to ‘test and trace’ to reduce the impact of new outbreaks, and good public health messaging from the government to their populations. Ultimately, the Barrington Declaration is based on principles that are dangerous to national and global public health.

1 Independent SAGE report –

RE: FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Thousands of scientists & physicians sign letter condemning Democrat's lockdowns

Dr Rupert Beale, Group Leader, Cell Biology of Infection Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute, said:

“An effective response to the Covid pandemic requires multiple targeted interventions to reduce transmission, to develop better treatments and to protect vulnerable people. This declaration prioritises just one aspect of a sensible strategy – protecting the vulnerable – and suggests we can safely build up ‘herd immunity’ in the rest of the population. This is wishful thinking. It is not possible to fully identify vulnerable individuals, and it is not possible to fully isolate them. Furthermore, we know that immunity to coronaviruses wanes over time, and re-infection is possible – so lasting protection of vulnerable individuals by establishing ‘herd immunity’ is very unlikely to be achieved in the absence of a vaccine. Individual scientists may reasonably disagree about the relative merits of various interventions, but they must be honest about the feasibility of what they propose. This declaration is therefore not a helpful contribution to the debate.”

RE: FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Thousands of scientists & physicians sign letter condemning Democrat's lockdowns

Dr Julian Tang, Honorary Associate Professor in Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, said:

“Having watched their video and read their Declaration, I can understand their concerns and their aims, but they are not very clear about how they will carry out their proposed ‘Focused Protection’.

“The interviewer gave a very simple example of a grandparent looking after a school-age child, highlighting one household member (the child) who would not be expected to suffer from COVID-19 much, who would attend a large gathering with other young people on a daily basis, but where the other household member (the grandparent) should be ‘protected’.

“But the reply from Dr. Jay Bhattacharya in the video was not really understandable and had no practical details of how this would be done.

“In fact, this ‘Focused Protection’ approach is used each year during our annual influenza season, where we vaccinate the vulnerable – elderly and those with comorbidities – including pregnancy: and even primary school children who have contact with such vulnerable groups in an effort to further protect the vulnerable:

“And if this fails to prevent influenza infection of the vulnerable groups, we have antivirals like oseltamivir and zanamivir that we can give to anyone who has influenza or in whom we even just suspect influenza (as empirical therapy during the influenza season) to reduce the severity of their illness.

“But we don’t yet have these additional ‘tools’ (the vaccine and antivirals) for COVID-19, to assist with this ‘Focused Protection’ approach.

“A similar approach may also work for COVID-19 one day – indeed a similar vaccination strategy for COVID-19 to that of influenza (targeting the most vulnerable) has already been discussed in the UK: but we don’t have a COVID-19 vaccine yet, nor a more general use antiviral treatment.

“So I appreciate and understand the concerns and the sentiment behind this declaration, and of course other diseases are important and need attention, but without these anti-COVID-19 ‘tools’, I cannot see how they will achieve this ‘Focused Protection’ for these vulnerable groups in any practical, reliable or safe way.”

RE: Tempting a war with NK and Iran wasn't enough for D.J. Trump

Can't we just let the inflatable effigy of Trump fly into space? That alone would scare any passing aliens from wanting to land on Earth.


Be a lot cheaper too.

RE: Signs of voting fraud...

"The objective of Leftists Isn't stealing the Election but bringing on Chaos" is what he said, I merely changed to the truth as it is the rightists that are making the fuss, not the left lol

RE: Signs of voting fraud...

Yet there is little evidence to say either party gains or loses with a mail vote or with any other fraudulent vote.
The Republicans are making a drama out of nothing to try and create chaos as Miclee said. The Democrats are putting more and more safety checks in place but the Republicans are doing nothing, so they can scream foul play when Trump loses.

The World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize

The coward, as everyone knows, is you, hidden behind a fake mask, with a fake location, being paid to spread lies and BS in every post, I have more integrity in my discarded toenail clippings than you will ever have.

The World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize

Private Coward, I have asked you politely not to post your lies and misinformation in my blogs. They will not be tolerated here!/

RE: socialism ? health care

You make some good points, sadly it is the top 1% who dictate to their puppets, and they also encompass the top 5% of selfish far-right leaning Americans who want to control the remain 95%.

RE: Landslide...

I think some are forgetting this election is really a referendum on Trump. IE: Does he deserve to stay or go, it is that simple, it really doesn't matter who replaces him or not. A potato may well be Trump's demise.

The World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize

The World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize

CONT.

"This is a man who has ignored public health officials and put his own voters at risk by holding several indoor rallies in the middle of a pandemic, including one in Tulsa which contributed to an uptick in coronavirus cases and likely killed Herman Cain. Not two weeks ago, it seems he hosted a super-spreader event at the White House where he himself was infected. He forced Secret Service agents to take him on a joyride in a hermetically sealed car, exposing them to his virus and putting their lives at risk, as he did with other White House staffers by insisting on working from the Oval Office rather than quarantining in the East Wing.

To allow this reckless behaviour to derail a presidential debate would be a disservice to the American people, and the Commission on Presidential Debates is right to move to a virtual format. Trump might not show up, but that doesn’t mean they should cancel the debate. The American people deserve to hear from the men who wish to lead us. If only one of them shows up, let the other’s absence speak for itself.

Put on a split screen, complete with an empty chair where the president ought to be. Let it represent everything Trump represents: a dereliction of duty, a lack of leadership, and the more than 210,000 Americans who won’t be sitting around their families’ Thanksgiving table because Donald Trump would rather sneer and snarl about how unfair the media is to him rather than do the job he is asking us to keep."

RE: 13 right wing nutcases charged in plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Whitman.

Did it cross your mind that the video could be designed to make you think exactly what you are implying?
Videos are easy to manipulate and appear real, which is why those with an open mind rarely watch them.

RE: Kamala Harris Is A FAKE, A PHONY and A FRAUD !!!

RE: Kamala Harris Is A FAKE, A PHONY and A FRAUD !!!

RE: The Infant-in-chief rejects virtual debate

Hilarious seeing as Trump was boasting this morning about all the drugs he has been taking. Trump should be isolated for 50 years in a secure environment, then we will know he cannot cause any more deaths.

RE: The Infant-in-chief rejects virtual debate

Trump is running scared, what a fiasco, talk about throwing toys out of the pram He knows he will lose a second debate so has a tantrum, there is no difference in debating being online or in person, with this virus everywhere it makes a heck of a lot of sense to carry out the debate virtually.
Debates are frequently carried out using skype or similar. Especially international ones where travel is not possible.

RE: Kamala Harris Is A FAKE, A PHONY and A FRAUD !!!

Yet she is still far more intelligent than you, she lies less frequently than you and is better looking than you too.

RE: The name is Philipsen - Mr Philipsen!

Be few could tell the difference between this Cava and Bollinger, at around 10 Euros wh cares

RE: == WAKE UP AMERICANS == IF BIDEN WINS AMERICA IS OVER

More and more lies, soon your lies will be catching up with Trumps lol


VERDICT
False. Biden did not say that he attended Delaware State University. At a speech he made in South Carolina in 2019 when he said that he “got started” out of DSU, he was likely referring to the support he received when he launched his U.S. Senate bid at the campus there in 1972.

This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team

RE: == WAKE UP AMERICANS == IF BIDEN WINS AMERICA IS OVER

Sadly for you, refusing to answer a question (Which Biden has answered, but you refuse to acknowledge) is not an admittance of agreement.