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Mask honor system not working
amid NY COVID spike fueled by
Delta variant, councilman says

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Posted By: Ribicon, 7/19/2021 12:48:17 AM

The highly contagious Delta variant has fueled a surge COVID cases around the world, including in New York where the numbers are creeping up. New York’s positive infection rate for Saturday was 1.51%, continuing its rise from 1.02% a week earlier and 0.63% two weeks earlier, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office.(Snip)Former FDA commissioner Doctor Scott Gottlieb, who sits on the board of Pfizer, appeared on Face the Nation Sunday, reminding people a final push in prevention is getting vaccinated. “This virus is so contagious, this variant is so contagious, that it will infect a majority,” he said. “Most people will either get vaccinated,

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"If I say this variant is the most terrifying ever, will THAT convince you to get the vaccine, for my personal financial benefit?" These needle pushers have no shame.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: MindMadeUp 7/19/2021 1:43:31 AM (No. 850027)
Masks don't protect you! They're like carrying a lucky rabbit's foot or knocking on wood. During the dark ages aristocrats would carry oranges with cloves embedded in the peel to hold to their noses in public as protection against the plague. Wearing a mask provides approximately the same amount of protection against the Wuhan.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 7/19/2021 2:56:01 AM (No. 850029)
Cases are irrelevant. Have there been any deaths of this new "variant"? Historically, viruses mutate to be less deadly, not more deadly.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Highlander 7/19/2021 5:38:19 AM (No. 850065)
Number two is correct: mutations always are weaker. It’s the second law of thermodynamics. Leftist poiticians are dumb, they don’t know real science, just fake science.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Luke21 7/19/2021 5:47:14 AM (No. 850068)
They have their little Sun Valley confab and then fill the air with this fascist drek.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: franq 7/19/2021 5:50:47 AM (No. 850070)
Masks harbor bacteria and make you sick.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 7/19/2021 7:38:52 AM (No. 850141)
Should read "The highly contagious and insipid Delta variant..."
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Reply 7 - Posted by: msjena 7/19/2021 7:40:12 AM (No. 850144)
Throughout the pandemic we were told that masks protect others, not the wearer. If true, why should vaccinated people (or people who have had COVID) have to wear masks? How many vaccinated people are dying? And what about treatments--we have one, the monoclonal antibody drugs. Why the panic over a preventable and treatable virus?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Come And Take It 7/19/2021 8:00:14 AM (No. 850168)
'who sits on the board of Pfizer' Hard pass. On the plus side for Granny Killer Cuomo, he might just get a second shot to waste some more Social Security recipients if Delta is all that he hopes it is.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: lakerman1 7/19/2021 8:08:28 AM (No. 850174)
The common cold is highly contagious, but weak. It is caused by a novel corona virus, just as Kung Flu is. Most people 'catch' a cold, but few die from it. If we tested for the common cold virus, most everyone would test positive, but few would be hospitalized or die. Instead, politicians would talk about the high number of 'cases' meaning high numbers testing positive.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Hazymac 7/19/2021 8:32:03 AM (No. 850189)
A frightened population is a compliant population, and these power freaks are trying to "keep up a skeer," as Bedford Forrest would have put it. It's come down to this: I didn't and don't believe their fearmongering, and won't believe it in the future. We've been relentlessly lied to by Fauci, the Legacy Media, and the Democrats. Anyone with any sense has already tuned out these irrelevant prevaricators and gotten on with life. There should be some truly horrifying professional consequences for these bipedal bovine scatology spreaders. They should be doing important things such as checking parking meters in Fairbanks. In January.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: NamVet70 7/19/2021 9:15:40 AM (No. 850215)
Notice the new covid is only discussed in percentage of cases. There is not reporting of number of deaths or number of hospital admissions. This seems like an effort by the progressives continue to extend their rule with emergency measures.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: chumley 7/19/2021 9:17:47 AM (No. 850221)
Honor system? And who exactly decides what is honorable for me to do? These people without honor? I decide what is honorable. It is honorable to resist tyranny in any way possible, including this small way. Honor from politicians. Ha!
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Reply 13 - Posted by: moebellini3 7/19/2021 9:22:50 AM (No. 850229)
Yea, now we worry about variants. This Delta variant probably escaped from Cuomo and deBlasio's 's lab.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: red1066 7/19/2021 9:23:31 AM (No. 850233)
So there are five runaways from Texas that tested positive for this version of the Chinese virus. None show any symptoms. So it took a incredibly flawed test to detect something that nobody knew they had and didn't feel. Sounds like we need to shut down the country again. Doing that will only do one positive thing, halt inflation.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: 24tea@Mag 7/19/2021 9:48:38 AM (No. 850256)
What is the Delta variant and where did it come fro? Maybe the D stands for Democrats.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Ribicon 7/19/2021 10:24:45 AM (No. 850279)
Former FDA commissioner Doctor Scott Gottlieb, who sits on the board of Pfizer, says the Delta variant is a grave threat. Is he not credible? FTA: “This virus is so contagious, this variant is so contagious, that it will infect a majority,” he said. “Most people will either get vaccinated, or have been previously infected or will get this Delta variant, and for those who get this Delta variant it will be the most serious virus they get in their lifetime, in terms of the risk of putting them in the hospital.”
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Reply 17 - Posted by: cold porridge 7/19/2021 10:34:41 AM (No. 850292)
No #16, he definitely is not.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: MickTurn 7/19/2021 10:45:38 AM (No. 850312)
I still want to know what happened to the Alpha, Beta and Crapola Varients...
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Reply 19 - Posted by: JHHolliday 7/19/2021 5:38:30 PM (No. 850708)
"The highly contagious Delta variant..." If I have seen that phrase once in the last few days I have seen it a hundred times. Once the media latches on what they think is the proper phrase they all start using it like a bunch of dim-witted parrots. Another is "systemic" as in systemic racism. Like toddlers discovering a new word and repeating it endlessly.
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