Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Valmy]

People have been saying #notmypresident for two decades now.

[Syt]

People have been saying #notmypresident for two decades now.

At this point it's an American tradition.

[The Minsky Moment]

Dear Mr. Biden, #notmypresident
Although I refused to listen to it, I understand that during your presidential acceptance speech, you were calling for the unity of Trump supporters.   
I remember four years ago my President Trump also called for unity.  I remember how Congressional members of your Democratic Party responded by boycotting his inauguration.   
I remember how you and your Democratic party cheated and used the greatest law enforcement institution of this country to spy on my President Trumps campaign.   
I remember how you and your Democratic Party created a fake Russian dossier to try and impeach my President Trump.   
I remember how your speaker of the house ripped up my President Trumps beautiful State of the Union speach on National TV.   
I remember how you and your Democratic Party tried to impeach my President Trump over a Ukraine phone call.   
You accused my President Trump of pay to play.  Come to find out Joe, it was really you and your son Hunter.   
I remember how you and your Democratic Party blamed my President Trump over a pandemic that he had nothing to do with.   
I remember how you and your Democratic Party encouraged rioting and looting of my great United States of America.
I remember how you and your Democratic Party used the media to spread lie after lie about my President Trump.   
I remember how you and your Democratic Party stole the election from my President Trump.   
This Trump supporter remembers all that Joe and will NOT be unifying with your Democratic Party.   
This Trump supporter will be giving you the same respect you gave my President Trump.
(copied from another Deplorable, like myself) Can I get a big AMEN from all the other Deplorables who feel the same as I do ???

Paraprhase.
Dear Joe Biden: I remember of various people who are not you did and said things I didn't like.  Therefore I won't respect you. Because.

[grumbler]

This one from alleged Dr. Pharmacist here is really odd, as he or she answers their own conspiracy charge in the opening of their rant.

Why aren't they selling more Tamiflu? It isn't necessarily because flu cases are being diagnosed as Covid, let alone a conspiracy to do so - perhaps it is because, during a pandemic, more people are doing stuff like washing hands, wearing masks, and socially distancing - measures that are even more effective at reducing influenza rates?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03519-3

But that would involve knowing something about the science. Clearly, in such situations, speculation based on anecdote is preferable, otherwise you may miss a wide-ranging conspiracy to take away your rights!

Pharmacists are weird.  Film at 11.

[Berkut]

FUnny, I was just thinking this morning that I have not had a cold or flu this season, which typically I get 1 or 2 of each year.

I just assumed it was because I wasn't out and interacting with other cold and flu vectors nearly as much. I even thought, in my head, "Hey, I bet overall rates of the cold and flu are likely WAY down....". Then I thought...."Hmmm, I wonder if after we deal with Covid, maybe it would make sense to think about what measures we took that could become more of the norm?"

Anyway, I am sure all that is really because I am part of the conspiracy.

[Barrister]

FUnny, I was just thinking this morning that I have not had a cold or flu this season, which typically I get 1 or 2 of each year.

I just assumed it was because I wasn't out and interacting with other cold and flu vectors nearly as much. I even thought, in my head, "Hey, I bet overall rates of the cold and flu are likely WAY down....". Then I thought...."Hmmm, I wonder if after we deal with Covid, maybe it would make sense to think about what measures we took that could become more of the norm?"

Anyway, I am sure all that is really because I am part of the conspiracy.

Back in September I got a cold (was tested for Covid - negative) and wondered just who the hell I even caught it from given the social distancing and mask wearing I was doing.

Yeah I wonder if mask wearing is going to be more normalized even after the pandemic (like it is in Asia), or if we'll all be so desperate to get rid of our masks at the first opportunity.

[Zoupa]

This one from alleged Dr. Pharmacist here is really odd, as he or she answers their own conspiracy charge in the opening of their rant.

Why aren't they selling more Tamiflu? It isn't necessarily because flu cases are being diagnosed as Covid, let alone a conspiracy to do so - perhaps it is because, during a pandemic, more people are doing stuff like washing hands, wearing masks, and socially distancing - measures that are even more effective at reducing influenza rates?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03519-3

But that would involve knowing something about the science. Clearly, in such situations, speculation based on anecdote is preferable, otherwise you may miss a wide-ranging conspiracy to take away your rights!

Pharmacists are weird.  Film at 11.

Tamiflu is almost never used as it's pretty ineffective. Please don't drink the Kool-Aid guys.

[Barrister]

FUnny, I was just thinking this morning that I have not had a cold or flu this season, which typically I get 1 or 2 of each year.

I just assumed it was because I wasn't out and interacting with other cold and flu vectors nearly as much. I even thought, in my head, "Hey, I bet overall rates of the cold and flu are likely WAY down....". Then I thought...."Hmmm, I wonder if after we deal with Covid, maybe it would make sense to think about what measures we took that could become more of the norm?"

Anyway, I am sure all that is really because I am part of the conspiracy.

Back in September I got a cold (was tested for Covid - negative) and wondered just who the hell I even caught it from given the social distancing and mask wearing I was doing.

Yeah I wonder if mask wearing is going to be more normalized even after the pandemic (like it is in Asia), or if we'll all be so desperate to get rid of our masks at the first opportunity.

Funny - after posting this I read Malthus's link (contained on Zoupa's quote above).

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03519-3

So it talks a lot about how the flu and other viruses has been almost completely knocked out this year, likely becauseof the masks, hand-wsahing and social distancing (though we don't know for sure).

But then it talks about rhinoviruses:

There is one major exception to the downward viral trend. "The one virus that's not being halted is the rhinovirus," says Janet Englund, a paediatric infectious disease researcher at Seattle Children's Hospital in Washington. Rhinoviruses are the major cause of the common cold, especially in children. More than a hundred strains exist, and about a dozen typically circulate in any given community. In one study in Southampton, UK, rhinovirus detection in adults admitted to hospital remained lower over the summer of 2020 than in summer 2019, but shot up as usual once schools reopened in September4. Data from NSW likewise show an apparent surge in rhinoviruses over the southern winter. Although some of these peaks are probably due to an increase in testing in people with mild cold symptoms, these viruses certainly did not decline as others did.

"No one really knows why" rhinoviruses are proving so persistent, says Englund. Some viruses that cause cold-like symptoms are very different from each other in structure; in particular, rhinoviruses, unlike influenza and coronaviruses, don't have an outer lipid coat, or envelope, which is vulnerable to soaps and sanitizers. In NSW, detection of the non-enveloped adenoviruses, which also cause cold-like symptoms, held relatively steady throughout the southern winter, rather than crashing like flu or surging like rhinovirus. "The expectation is that rhinovirus is perhaps more stable on surfaces," Englund says, allowing greater transmission between children on hands, desks and doorknobs. There is also thought to be greater asymptomatic transmission of rhinoviruses, which would allow them to circulate more freely in schools, even when sick children are staying at home.

So that could explain my September cold...

[Syt]

[Valmy]

Man the conspiracy theory that the election was stolen from Trump is now just part of a conspiracy theory to protect Clinton, Biden, and Obama.

It is conspiracies all the way down.

[Tamas]

Wow, that's, like, deep.

And yes I guess wishing someone who is dead to be alive is wishful thinking. Very deep.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Well the world is a seething hell of double standards and unfairness. All of life's problems are the result of the leftist-islamomillitantfeminazi commies.   Their dread purpose is interwoven at every level of creation, from the fake moon landings down to Hell where Obamasatan rulez.

[Razgovory]

I'm getting really tired of this Qanon bullshit.  Some pig farmer in the Philippines starts to posting weird poems and now we have assholes claiming anyone they don't like is a pedophile.

[Syt]

[Valmy]

We also donate trillions to institutions while denying medical care and financial support to our people during a pandemic that restricts their ability to work and causes life threatening damage to their health. 'Murica.

Kind of odd to see Syt's family demanding socialist policies, but I guess when twinned with hatred of foreigners its ok. You might even call it a nationalist sort of socialism. Huh...