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Nice shirt. Nice scowl. mspart

I never said they aren't people. If they want to get the vaccine, then they should. If they feel they should mask, they should. According to the chart below, 1.06 million people aged 50+ have died of covid. 0.074 million people aged 0-49 have died of covid. Roughly speaking of the deaths by age, 93.5% of the deaths were those 50+, 6.5% were of 0-49. So yes, those over 50, (me included) are more suspectible and should take precautions. What isn't told below is how many of these were people with lousy immune systems or other comorbidities. That information is not useful I guess. Because it would tell a different story than the hysterical "we are going to get covid and we are going to die from it" crowd. We don't even need to get into the percentages of those who had covid who died, those make your case even more eggregious. Suffice to say, that the current mutated form of covid should not be anything like what we had at the beginning. I've had covid and it was pretty bad. I am in pretty good health and don't see a real concern. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-from-covid-by-age-us/ From my "Twitter is better" post: Compare age of contracting covid vs that age group death and you get a rate. I'll do a few. For those 85+, death rate was 15.8% For those 50-64 death rate was 1.1%. For 40-49, death rate was 0.33%. For 0-17, death rate was 0.098%. Compare this to the total age group population having died from covid and the numbers go down drastically. This is not the emergency you are looking for. mspart

I called to have an ingrown toenail fixed. I got in that week. Fixed. Not sure what the wait would be in Canada. Canada is so good and the waits so long that BC decided to send their cancer patients to Bellingham WA where there were facilities to care for them. At least there was a recognition that its better for these people to live than to die due to neglect. https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/critics-upset-that-b-c-has-to-send-cancer-patients-to-bellingham-for-treatment mspart

Ah the cash register motif!! mspart

1. He's a dottering fool who can't talk. Meaning he is physically unfit and mentally unfit. 2. He's got serious trouble from the Hunter issues that point to him. 3. He said, he knows nothing about Hunter's business dealings. He lied to everyone and everyone now knows that. 4. Nobody in the D party wants him running for Pres. The preference is Newsome. RFK Jr cannot win. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-poll-2024-white-house-economy-873663f6e3cbca8f2dae2f018c8be9d3 Biden splits the party. That means he splits the I's as well. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/democrats-apathetic-biden-2024-dealbreaker/story?id=96949234 6/10 D's don't want Biden nominated. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/us/politics/biden-approval-polling-2024.html Most Ds don't want Biden. Call it a hunch. I see him as Lyndon Johnson who initially was going to run but decided not to. I believe Joe will fit that bill. mspart

I may have said this but BC is sending cancer patients to Bellingham WA for cancer treatment. Why? Because they can't handle the case load. No doctors or equipment. Little Bellingham can for all of BC. Now that's saying something about the US system and the Canadian system. mspart

Because he hopes so. There is just too much circumstantial evidence that will get concrete soon enough. Joe won't run in 2024. mspart

So msn.com was conned? mspart

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bombshell-biden-s-alias-robert-l-peters-received-an-email-that-cc-d-hunter-about-ukraine/ar-AA1fIJzF?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=139c72c9ca4b48aab06811a5ee984a94&ei=27 Bombshell: Biden’s Alias ‘Robert L. Peters’ Received An Email That CC’d Hunter About Ukraine Story by David Rufful t’s been widely reported that Joe Biden and five other top officials in the Obama administration used alias emails, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Republicans have found that Biden’s email alias is suspiciously connected to documents and communications involving Ukraine where his son Hunter raked in millions through an influence-peddling scheme. Congress has demanded that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) turn over all documents on the government network containing Biden’s secret code names, which include Robert Peters, Robin Ware, and JRB Ware. “Robin” likely refers to Joe’s middle name, which is Robinette. ... In 2016, “Robert L. Peters” received an email that cc’d Hunter Biden about Ukraine. The email contained an attachment that House investigators requested from the National Archives. ... A total of 27 emails found on Hunter Biden’s laptop are linked to Joe Biden’s “Robert L. Peters” alias. Using an alias!! "I had no information about Hunter's business dealings", yeah right. This is just getting deeper and deeper for Joe. He will not be running for President in 2024, that is my prediction. mspart

This ^ mspart

OK Ban - What has the Mayo Clinic been saying since day one of the pandemic? I don't know what they have said. You seem to know so it would be good for you to share. Then we could have a reasonable discussion of that information. mspart

I'm over 60 and I feel not 35 anymore!! mspart

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/brand-great-again-anheuser-busch-162731828.html More than four months after Bud Light's marketing blunder, the beer brand remains in the spotlight. Now Billy Busch, heir to the Anheuser-Busch dynasty, presents an intriguing proposition to Bud Light's parent company, Anheuser-Busch InBev SA (NYSE:BUD). "I urge that company, InBev, if they don't want that brand any longer, sell it back to the Busch family. Sell it to me. I'll be the first in line to buy that brand back from you. And we'll make that brand great again," he said during Tomi Lahren's show "Fearless." Oh no, not MAGA Bud Light!!!! mspart

We need height and weight. Where is that? mspart

But it didn't kill massive numbers of those aged 0-50. That is a fact. And of those over 50 the kill rate was higher but total kill vs total in that age group was not all that great. Covid is a hysteria that has no basis in science or in statistics. Young kids don't get it and therefore don't spread it. They don't have any role to play with regard to covid. mspart

Hi Plasi, what about Money is garbage to you? I love that song and do not consider it garbage. I'd be interested in your opinion. mspart

Another anecdote, my son has worked in Target three times. The last as a security guy. He was not allowed to stop shop lifters and they were constant. Great security force there. He quit because it was extremely boring. Now looking for a new job. mspart

To respond to both. REI and Walmart are no longer in Portland OR for this very reason. General shoplifting is so prolific that these stores were losing money. Nordstrom left their 5 floor department location in San Francisco for the same reason. The owners of the Westfield Mall in San Francisco left, no longer paying the lease. The 1981 room Hilton closed down. It may not be flash mobs, but it is general crime that is making these places apparently unfit for these businesses to continue doing business in those areas. If you would like to read more on these examples: https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/westfield-pulling-out-of-downtown-san-francisco/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/park-hotels-leaving-san-francisco-clouded-recovery/ https://www.seattletimes.com/business/records-show-rei-frustration-with-portland-officials-as-closure-loomed/ https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/portlands-last-2-walmart-locations-closing-doors-friday/ My friends, this cannot continue and us have the convenient life we have grown accustomed to. The experiment of allowing people to commit crime with no penalty is a failure and needs to be reversed. It is time for law and order again. My wife's uncle was beaten up by some random guy the other day in Portland. He is 70. He is a bus driver in Portland. This has just gotten out of control. This story of people being assaulted happens with regularity in towns and cities across the country but no arrests or investigations happen in the bigger cities. We are degenerating into a living hell in these cities and it needs to stop. NYC was similar then it got cleaned up and was one of the safer cities in which to reside. It can be done. But it takes decisive action and adhering to the rule of law. mspart

Oh yeah, the original was on the top 100 charts for over 700 consecutive months. Lots of people bought that album. Me included. I agree, one listen and forgotten. I don't care for the vocal either. He's not much of a vocalist anyway. But he is trying to erase the contributions of David Gilmour and Rick Wright. They were integral to making the Pink Floyd sound. And he has taken those away. The music is similar but not nearly as well done as the original. It is different, but not in a good way. He's just a mean old man trying to get his last licks in. Thanks WR and MP for responding. mspart

BRICS to make a new currency to derail the dollar. EU already tried that with the Euro and that didn't take down the dollar. In fact it was worth more than a dollar and now is about equal to. But it has not become the defacto currency. I predict BRICS won't change anything. If I'm wrong - Hongzhao is a nice city. mspart

OK, I've had enough. I can't take BB anymore!! Ban him!!! I am serious!!! He is just too civil to be on this board, not breaking rules, and arguing and submitting new music ideas and stuff. Plus he likes it here and wants to stay. What better reason do we have to ban him from here than that!! mspart PS: For all you folks that can't read between the lines properly, I was being sarcastic above. I don't want him banned. But I would like his opinion on my Roger Waters thread. If he doesn't do that, then ban him!!

https://bestclassicbands.com/roger-waters-dark-side-of-the-moon-redux-8-24-23/ This is the worst thing he could have done in my opinion. Here is his new version of Time. Here is his new version of Money: Just awful. What is he thinking? Who would want to listen to this garbage? I read about this effort some time back and thought this might be interesting. NOT!! Who would have purchased this back in the day and who would purchase it now? I love Pink Floyd but this is an abomination. Other opinions? mspart

The vaccines have been proven not to prevent Covid nor the spread of covid. The best that they can say is they are like a flu shot, the symptoms shouldn't be as bad if you do get it. But we have been through this. Covid is life threatening (original covid that is) for older people with bad immune systems and those with comorbidities. It is not life threatening on the population ages 0-50. Please don't make me drag out those old statistics, we all know them. No mandates for a vaccine that may, may possibly, be effective for a few months. No mask mandates as the masks are useless against a virus so small. No lockdowns, we have seen what that has done to our children. The reaction to covid is a lot more dangerous to everyone on the whole than getting covid. Remember all the layoffs due to businesses not being critical? Remember all the forced terminations due to not getting the vaccine? In WA, we are still dealing with that issue as the Governor still will not hire those people back at the level that they were at. This has wrecked the Ferry system and that is a vivid reminder of dangerous covid policy. Also as disease mutates, it generally gets less deadly while being more prevalent. That has been the case with covid, and the less deadly variants as time went on. Also, people died of lots of things, but if they had covid, they died of covid. In the beginning, it was new and no one knew anything about it and we all panicked. Now we know and there is no need to panic. mspart

I can see Dylan and Jackson. They wrote most of their stuff. I don't think Elvis wrote much, but I could be wrong. Same for Nelson. Now I must say I don't care for Dylan and really don't care for Jackson. But they did have immense talent. mspart

This ^. This describes the world we live in now. Right is wrong, and wrong is right. Gun laws are good but are not imposed on criminals using guns. I could go on and on. It isn't so bad that someone (not blind) will say they see only darkness on a cloudless day at noon. But we inch closer as we accept the mutilation and chemical castration of kids too young to make that decision for themselves, and school districts are complicit as are cities, states, and the national leaders. Have you ever wondered why the school nurse can't give your kid an aspirin or Tylenol or anything similar but can facilitate abortions and sex change procedures called gender affirming care without the knowledge of the parents? That is the situation now in many parts of the nation, certainly here in WA. 13 year olds are medically emancipated from their parents. 5 years ago this would have been called abuse of the grossest kind. But now it is celebrated as life affirming. We don't let these people vote, drive cars, buy guns, buy alcohol, but by golly they can make decisions that affect their lives for the rest of their lives with no idea of the consequences because their brains are not yet developed to make those kinds of decisions. And we know that from science. Something is wrong with that and everyone knows it. Yet many hide behind this as if it is a good thing. It is madness. Wrong is now right and right is now wrong. It is quite apparent. mspart