Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "DW News" channel.

  1.  @BonsaiBlacksmith  I speak Spanish, that doesn't make me Spanish, or even Mexican, despite my being told I have a Mexican accent by several South Americans.
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  2. Why is Europe having an IC chip shortage? Some of the nicest PLDs I've ever coded for were Atmel chips, and they produce at least half their chips in Europe still.
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  3. I grew up in Southern California. This is the same sort of horrible pattern we saw, vegetation burned away in hot months, followed by floods in winter. Areas denuded of greenery cannot absorb the water, or hold the dirt in place, so you end up with mudflows.
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  4. Why did FIFA raise the stakes? Money, money, money. Money.
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  5. Lavrov speaks well, as he utters base lies.
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  6.  @kennethpeppers3501  An avoidance of civilian casualties is why the bridge was bombed early in the day, before commuters used it.
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  7.  @TeddyKrimsony  You missed the point, Russia promised to respect Ukraine's borders, if she gave Russia her nuclear arsenal. Russia made the same agreement with Georgia. Russia breaks treaties with impunity.
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  8.  @SladkaPritomnost  Waste or not, we don't have the storage capacity to rely on intermittent energy sources at present. Germany erred badly, when it closed its nuclear powerplants, and played into Putin's hand.
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  9. Sort of a living example of why MMT doesn't work.
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  10.  @senseisenpaianimes5612  Their problems are due to their own tribal and religious warfare, not the west.
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  11. What about all those oil execs, that fell out of windows, or were assassinated with their families?
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  12.  @معاذالحلو-س4ك  We know what is right, and that you are wrong.
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  13. Nobody is blaming football for Kafala. They blame FIFA for accepting bribes, to hold Mondial in such an in hospitable country, that utilizes this form of slavery. They blame FIFA for caving in, on the alcohol situation, just before the games. They blame FIFA for telling officials to yellow card those who quietly show solidarity with gay people. There is nothing hypocritical about finding FIFA's corruption abhorrent
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  14. What is especially pathetic is, this story said the reason for the shutdowns was Fukishima. Japan sits on several fault lines, so is seismically unstable. Germany does not. The last time an earthquake was close to Germany, was in the 14th century, in Switzerland. I grew up on the San Andreas fault, and the nearby Diablo Canyon nuclear powerplant never suffered from seismic damage, even though it was built in the 1970s.
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  15. One error, this is not spreading just in gay men . Because the primary cases were gay men, and the main spreader event was a European fetish fair, only gay men are being routinely tested, and straight people, with the symptoms of the disease, are being ignored. Without testing everyone, with a weird rash or blisters (vesicles) we won't know how widely this disease has spread. Public health officials need to widen their testing field. A NYC infectious disease physician has been testing anyone with monkeypox symptoms, and he has found it in straight people, and even two children. Let's not make the mistakes we made before, and assume only certain people can get this. Anyone who comes into contact with infectious vesicles, or fluid from infectious vesicles, or an object contaminated with fluid from infectious vesicles, can be infected. This is not an STD and anyone can be infected !
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  16.  @alphahari7210  Israel isn't invaded your countries, but you have invaded and attacked Israel.
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  17.  @joegreen235  So, we shouldn't believe the Russian soldiers, when they send out angry TikToks that they are untrained and lack even basic supplies?
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  18.  @evereststevens5408  So, because they treated you well, we should ignore Kafala, mistreatment of gay people, a lack of human rights for women, etc.? My daughter returned from Japan, through Canada, also with a high fever and vomiting. The Canadian healthcare staff, at the airport, gave her antibiotics and a saline infusion to rehydrate her, and rescheduled her flight back to Portland, for when she was feeling well, and never asked a dime. And Canada is not known for human rights abuses, like Qatar is.
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  19. That's some powerful deflection. How about we ask Russia why it is putting out false reports?
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  20.  @tristanrodriguez4880  Nuclear power generates electricity, and cars and trucks can run on electricity. In fact, an electric motor has much more torque, than an internal combustion engine, so is especially good for heavy vehicles.
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  21. You don't use wax to dye cloth. The wax is a resist, to prevent areas from being dyed. You put your wax mask, on the area you want to remain white, and dye. Then you mask more areas. And through several iterations, you get multicolored cloth, without printing. As to being a dying art, hardly, my mom did batik, as have I and my daughters.
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  22. NATO is a purely defensive alliance. If Russia had not invaded Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine, and is still illegally occupying parts of those sovereign nations, NATO would not be involved.
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  23.  @silasla  Scientific papers show that the booster raises the level of antibodies that neutralize Omicron. So the boosters do work, and the risks of vaccination are much, much less than the risk of infection.
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  24. While true that vaccinated individuals can possibly pass Covid on, they do so at a far lesser scale than unvaccinated individuals. They may not be bullet proof, but it is like they are wearing a kevlar vest. Vaccinated people are less likely to become infected, if infected they transmit less virus for a much shorter time. Don't forget 80% of the virus is transmitted by only 20% of infected, and those super-spreaders are always unvaccinated.
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  25.  @alphahari7210  The weapons, you complain of, are coming from Russia and Iran. Invade them, and leave western Europe alone.
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  26.  @casteretpollux  Since no part of western Europe is bombing their countries, your comment seems both hostile and wrong.
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  27. What angers me is, the way my city was destroyed, the downtown totally wrecked, over the death of a criminal, high on fentanyl, resisting arrest for another crime, in a city over two thousand miles away from mine. So many good people had their stores and homes completely wrecked over something that happened far away.
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  28.  @shooster5884  Too many people. While other regions of the world has controlled their population growth, most of Africa has not. When the number of people outstrip resources, either you import food, or people die.
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  29. Are you talking about the occupiers from Arabia?
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  30. No, there were plenty of Soviet rockets in Cuba, aimed at the US. What the US prevented was nuclear warheads, in those missile silos. The US is not arming Ukraine with nuclear warheads, so there is no comparison.
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  31.  @joem0088  If part of Ukraine want to align with Russia, it is only because they are filled with the descendants of Russians, brought in to replace 10 million Ukrainians murdered in Stalin's Holodomor. Ukraine has good reason to fear being controlled by Russia again.
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  32.  @JG-xi4tu  I believe he means the native French people, who are overrun by criminals from Africa, such as the criminal who was justifiably shot.
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  33. If you cannot respect your guests, and their cultures, don't host an international game.
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  34.  @karimahmedov3038  Napoleon tried to take Russia in 1812, about a century before the USSR existed. Is all your history so faulty?
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  35.  @mralgerian8702  No, the colonizers are from Arabia.
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  36.  @JG-xi4tu  A justified shooting, which this was, is not murder. It was not just "someone" but a duly authorized police officer, that told the criminal to stop. When he gunned the gas, he authorized the police officer to shoot him.
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  37. Sensible gun restrictions will not take your guns from you, unless you are a danger to yourself or others. Stop using this false talking point!
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  38.  @nuqwestr  Since sensible gun restrictions would include handguns, your point is absurd. In 2020, in the US, 13,663 people were killed with guns, 1,739 from knives or other cutting instruments, and 393 from blunt objects. Death may come from other objects, but a lot more people are killed with guns.
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  39.  @andreyknyazev9179  Ukraine hasn't just retaken 6,000 sq km in Kharkiv a few weeks ago. They've also retaken a lot of land north and east of the Dnipro River.
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  40. At what risk? Sure, you can risk infection, with the disability that over 10% of the infected are left with, or you can ward the damage off with vaccination.
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  41. I believe the criminal, who was shot, was pulled over for driving recklessly, in a stolen car, without a license, not because of ethnicity. You cannot integrate someone who feels they are superior to the native people.
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  42. The UK pound is strong too. And they also have higher interest rates.
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  43. Climate is not always changing. You're confusing climate with weather. First, carbon dioxide is a compound, not an element. Second, while plants need carbon dioxide, to make carbohydrates, animal need oxygen to serve as a terminal electron acceptor in metabolic pathways. That is why humans must take in oxygen, while we exhale carbon dioxide. When carbon dioxide and oxygen are in balance, the ecosystem works well, but when there is an excess of carbon dioxide, as there is now, the temperature of the earth rises, causing disruptions of weather patterns, overly energetic storms, drought in some areas and excess rain in others.
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  44. Wrong. Just because there is equality of opportunity, it doesn't mean everyone puts in the work to acquire wealth.
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  45.  @Adrian2140  Russia is already occupying part of Moldova.
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  46.  @mhdhmd1259  So invade Russia, not Poland, the UK, or any part of the EU.
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  47. Even in Israel, nobody has had six boosters. Stop scamming people!
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  48. Infecting others is not a basic human right.
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  49. Maybe for English speakers. In many languages, it is already pronounced correctly.
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  50. Even if you have 70% of the adult population vaccinated, that is not 70% of the whole population. Children, too young to be vaccinated, do exist.
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  51.  @Emanon...  Myocarditis, from vaccination is infrequent, mild and transitory, while from Covid-19 infection is much more common, and results in permanent damage. Don't equate the two.
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  52. This is different, and will remain different. Influenza doesn't have the post-acute sequelae that SARS-CoV-2 does. eg. Flu doesn't doesn't double your chances of becoming diabetic, as Covid-19 infections do.
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  53. I grew up in California as well. And lived in Los Angeles too. What you describe never, ever happened. California required you to vote in, and only in, your assigned polling place. I know this, because I lived in the SF Valley, but worked in Thousand Oaks, so had to leave work early on election day, spend an hour on the freeway, with all the other people heading to their polling place, so I could get to my assigned polling place, and vote. You couldn't just go from school to school, voting in each one. Stop making up total BS!
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  54. Right after WWII, the US helped Japan recover. One of the things they did was bring modern medicine and hygiene. The two biggest problems were cows infected with TB, which passed the bacillus on in their milk, and night-soil. Human waste was collected and used on the fields. That was the cause of many outbreaks of diarrheal diseases, and deaths in children. Many lives were saved by banning the collection and use of night-soil. This seems like a very bad idea.
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  55.  @ДорианГрей-ъ4ш  You mean too informed and aware.
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  56. Calling civilians, hiding from Russian shelling of civilian targets, human shields, is a common practice of Russian trolls.
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  57.  @freebee8274  Hardly, Russian interference in our elections, and aggressive actions around the world, are why American hate them. Why did Russia help the butcher, al Assad, murder innocent Syrians with illegal weapons? Why is Russia trying to invade more of Ukraine?
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  58. That explains why Russia is giving Le Pen campaign funds. A good rule of thumb is, never vote for the candidate Russia backs.
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  59. Most people, out side of France, think the French are crazy. None of us think raising the retirement age to 62, which is still lower than in most nations, when you have 30 hour work week, is not onerous at all.
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  60. That's nonsense. You don't have large enough blood vessels, in muscle tissue, for the needle to enter the vessel. All aspiration does is, make the injection much more painful.
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  61.  @falsch4761  The US didn't threaten Russia or Cuba, just because Russian troops were in Cuba. The US only reacted when the USSR attempted to put nuclear warheads, in those missile silos, aimed at the US.
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  62. Nobody is promoting homosexuality, just human dignity for homosexuals.
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  63. Gee, in the US, most start working while still a minor (under 18) and many work until 70. If you retire at 65, you receive much smaller social security payments. Also, our work week is 40 hours, while yours is 30, which we consider part time.
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  64. It looks like a conquest.
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  65. Yes, there are inequities, especially in population growth. While the population of Pakistan has more than quadrupled, in the last fifty years, the populations of western Europe and the United States would have dropped, if not for immigration. When populations increase, beyond finite food production ability, there will be problems. Climate change induced disasters exacerbate the problem, just as unfettered population growth exacerbates climate change.
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  66. There are more than two parties, in the US, but their candidates seldom get enough votes to matter, just as in the UK. There are plenty of other countries, with parliamentary forms of government, where two parties dominate. This is not a function of our form of government. And, those countries, that use proportional representation, so that small parties can thrive, are in constant upheaval, constantly have a difficult time forming coalitions, and constantly going back to elections. Many small parties only makes things worse. The US problem is, we based our government on the UK government, with a president rather than a king, When the US government was designed, the Senate was based upon the House of Lords. Australia and Canada did the same. But, the UK, and those other countries, have now made their Lords/Senate an advisory body only, with no real power, while the US has not. We need not form a parliamentary government, to reduce the power of the Senate, merely a constitutional amendment. Also, the archaic Electoral College, is anti-democratic, although it would be less so, if the number of Electors a state has, were based only on the number of Representatives. Either that, or going to the popular vote, could be effected with an amendment. As far as making US elections better reflect the view of voters, another party will not do anything, as long as it is more extreme than the two main parties. If, however, a third moderate party were formed, that could absorb the disaffected Democrats and Republicans, sick at how extreme their parties have become, the two main parties would be forced move back towards the center. And that does not require a parliamentary government.
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  67. My father taught medicine at Tokyo Army General, when Japan really was controlled by the US. The US military patrolled the streets, and you could have called it an American colony. But, just ten years later, it was a free country, and the only US presence was an army base. Japanese politicians ran the country, Japanese police patrolled the streets. I assume the same happened much the same way in Germany. And not only was the US control brief, it was only of Western Germany. I really doubt you were in the military, or you'd have known that.
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  68. It's a pity that talks with Israel, over sharing the Leviathan natural gas fields, fell apart when the Lebanese government dissolved. Natural gas could serve as a cheaper, cleaner, more reliable energy source.
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  69. Except they wanted to restore the monarchy, which is why they were going to install a "prince" with royal blood.
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  70.  @devrusso  You mean it started when Russia invaded, and occupied parts of Ukraine in 2014? Once again, Russia started the conflict, and should leave Ukraine.
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  71.  @orionlt1028  Are you talking about when Ukrainians overthrew the oligarchs Russia had placed in power? That was led by the Ukrainian people.
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  72. Both are legal here in Oregon.
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  73. That's false. The data shows otherwise. And, many of the deaths in states with good vaccination rates, are from out-of-state patients transported, because of lack of space in their home state. That's what is happening in my state. We had to build more morgue space, to handle all the deaths of people from another state, who died after being transferred here.
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  74.  @derektompkins2487  You're incorrect. Every vaccine ever produced is designed to activate the adaptive immune system against certain epitopes. The mRNA vaccines are no different. And vaccines are preventatives, not therapies. There is no vaccine, for any human disease, that prevents 100% of cases. In fact, the mRNA vaccines have proven more effective, than vaccines we've utilized in the past.
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  75.  @yousufalharthy9485  It is terrible that Arabs are occupying parts of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. But, the native people don't terrorize the occupiers. It is inhumane that the occupiers keep terrorizing the indigenous people.
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  76. Not a great attitude, considering how worn out healthcare professionals are.
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  77.  @lv3609  Most (over a third) of California's electricity comes from natural gas. The amount of electricity produced from wind and solar, is closely equal to the amount produced from hydroelectric and nuclear. Can Germany say the same?
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  78. Being a good programmer requires the sort of logical mind few possess. It isn't like learning how to be an electrician or plumber. There are more than enough bad programmers out there, who are about 1% as effective as a good one.
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  79.  @senseisenpaianimes5612  Are you going to pretend the problem did not exist for hundreds of years?
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  80. It was Russia that invaded Ukraine, not the US. And the US is not going to force Ukraine to make peace, when they don't want to. You think some of our people aren't angry about the billions we have spent on Ukraine? But it is wrong to force a victim nation to make peace with an aggressor. We'd waste our money saving your hide too, and have in the past.
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  81.  @jaydominguez7487  Do you honestly think Ukraine hasn't been begging to join NATO? NATO, or at least some European members, doesn't want them.
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  82. Turkey is currently attacking Kurds in Syria. Don't see that mentioned here, or in the US, either. The only place I've seen it reported, is on Israeli channels.
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  83. If they educated their daughters, rather than selling them as brides while still children, the birthrate could be brought down. They don't need to have so many children, they are a drain on the family's resources, not a help.
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  84.  @qinby1182  Your conclusion is bogus. The real conclusion is, South Africa is doing a very poor job of testing.
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  85. Vaccines are not meant to protect against infection. No vaccine we get does that. But, since you were not hospitalized, and haven't had long Covid, the vaccine worked.
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  86. There is severe overpopulation in Africa, that is why, they will never be able to feed all their children. Smaller family size is the only answer, Zero Population Growth. The best way to limit family size is educating girls.
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  87. It doesn't matter what laws are passed, to prevent dangerous situations, if there are not enough inspectors to discover breaking of those laws. In places with insufficient building inspectors, unsafe buildings are erected. Clearly Nigeria lacks enough inspectors to prevent the sale of banned poisons. But, what is the solution, when a country is too poor to hire inspectors?
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  88.  @The_Savage_Wombat  That's cool, but wind, like solar is intermittent, and storage capacity is insufficient for the needs of large cities.
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  89. The FDA always goes slower than its European counterpart.
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  90.  @Hereford1642  Only to a gulag, not to free soil.
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  91. He didn't abide by the Budapest agreement. Why would anyone expect him to keep his word?
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  92. Except the many survivors, who still suffer from Long Covid. The rate of diabetes is doubled in Covid survivors. Do you consider being diabetic being stronger? How about the brain fog, many are left with, and other neurological problems caused by this virus?
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  93. Putin, keep your word to respect Ukrainian borders. Too late, you invaded eight years ago.
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  94.  @evgeniievgenii3757  And Iran, don't forget Russia's alignment with the biggest sponsor of terrorism. Sure, genocidal dictators stand with Russia, the democratic countries are with Ukraine.
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  95.  @Hannan_1325  If a law is not applied equally, like say a man wearing a transparent shirt, or going shirtless, would also get two years in jail, it is unjust.
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  96. Don't forget Transdniester (part of Moldova) in 2003. That is the reason Russia can place forces west of Ukraine.
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  97.  @dzokavaac7307  Hardly, the USA usually assists without getting anything in return.
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  98.  @UnfollowYourDreams  This is not the effect of colonialism, it is the effect of overpopulation. The only mistake, was giving modern medicine, so more children survived childhood, adding to the overpopulation problem. Have fewer children, and don't expect the rest of the world to care for your excess.
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  99. Because "the other side" is a bunch of kooks screaming that Trump really won.
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  100. Because a lack of birth control, and the poor status of women, means they have more children than their land can support.
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  101.  @undergroundminer3262  And yet, even with the knowledge of the Federalist Papers, Supreme Courts, prior to 2008, found there was no individual right to arms. It took a very weak, and twisted, bit of reasoning to make a right, that was intended for the military to become an individual right.
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  102. They were already militarily occupied. The little green men just redonned their uniforms.
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  103.  @UnfollowYourDreams  Have fewer children, so you can take care of your people, in your land, and not invade others.
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  104.  @ashmusic621  You are forgetting Africa.
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  105. The woman is an expert on tyrannies. You should read her book Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine.
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  106. Americans are not smiling. We've committed to $5.3 billion for weapons to aid Ukraine, and another $1.7 billion in medical aid to Ukraine. This at a time when we are seeing the worst inflation in 40 years. Housing costs are so high, we have half a million homeless. The US is tired of being the world's piggy bank, when other countries have a much better safety net for their citizens, than we do.
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  107. Same in the western US. California is enduring the longest drought in recorded history, while Oregon and Washington have experienced record rain and floods.
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  108. While most cases have been found in gay men, that is because they are the only group who is being routinely tested. If they started testing the general public, whenever someone shows symptoms, they'd find a lot more cases. All it takes is contact with the fluid from and infected vesicle, which are most commonly found on the hands and face, or contact with a object, that came into contact with said fluid.
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  109. Prior to 2008, the Supreme Court interpreted the second amendment to only require the military to be armed. But, with the Heller case, that right was wrongfully extended to the individual. Also, there was a ban on assault rifles from 1994 to 2004. While it was in place, there were much fewer mass shootings.
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  110. Yes, it is indeed sad that my country, and the rest of the west, is not doing everything they can to help Moldova and Georgia, because they're next. Neither can join NATO, as part of their territory is occupied by Russia.
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  111.  @devotionceviri  In Hebrew, they are called עוף הודי (Of Hodi), or Indian chicken.
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  112. Centuries.
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  113. Canada already has legal cannabis. Wouldn't that make them the leader?
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  114. They make Novavax by transfecting baculovirus with dsDNA for the spike protein, then they grow the modified virus in gypsy moth cell culture. That gene product (protein) is administered with a saponin based adjuvant. It does not contain PEG. So, I guess you might have a problem if you're allergic to soap.
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  115. Popular? With whom is any variant popular? Try dominant or prevalent. And since China has stopped testing and sequencing, we've no real idea which variants are dominating China.
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  116. It is buying fuel oil, so it can export more of its crude oil.
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  117. In a stolen car no less. Nor was this the first car the young thief stole.
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  118.  @CUNDUNDO  Then why were people voting at gunpoint. There are plenty of people, who didn't vote to join Russia, but their votes magically transformed.
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  119.  @ЭЮЯ-о3к  Al Assad invited Russia to help kill Sunni Syrians and Kurds, not drive out ISIL. Russia helped destroy Syria, and make it an Iranian vassal state.
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  120. More food today will solve nothing, when they continue to have more children than they can feed. Without education for women, and continuing marrying girls off, as children, Somalia cannot improve.
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  121. Were you vaccinated? Omicron was mild, if you already had immunity, but death tolls rose sharply, when Omicron became the dominate variant.
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  122. חג פסח שמח
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  123.  @ЭЮЯ-о3к  Russia, not the US, has invaded Georgia and Ukraine, and stolen parts of their countries. If US troops are there, they are there at invitation, to defend from further Russian aggression.
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  124.  @Dirgis-66  Fine, eating animals isn't as efficient as eating meat. But, humans evolved to be omnivores, and cattle have nothing to do with this disease.
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  125. There are GPS jamming devices, that bring these drones down.
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  126. Was he armed with a high capacity semi-automatic, like most of the hostage takers in the US? If not, that could explain why it turned out differently.
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  127. Didn't Tigray rule and oppress the majority for years? So, now they can no longer dominate the majority, they want out. Sounds like the US Confederacy.
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  128. Really? I consider 6,359,350 dead pretty damn bad.
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  129. What they need is to recognize females should be allowed to get an education, not be married off as children, to begin having more children. Too many offspring outstrip the resources of the land.
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  130. The source of the problem?
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  131.  Peter Witte  So, it is quite possible her grandfather killed members of my family. I don't blame her for that. I do blame people like her, for Germany stupidly getting rid of their nuclear powerplants, and going back to fossil fuel produced electricity.
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  132. Because as the human population expands, we expand the boundaries of human habitation into new lands, we will continue to bump into viruses, that previously infected only animals. Look at all the emergent zoonotic diseases of the last several decades, Marburg, Dengue, HIV, Zika, SARS, MERS, etc. Who is the culprit? The animals, whose territories we've invaded, or us, the human race? Rather than look for a culprit, we just need to respond more sanely, and use whatever means we have, to control outbreaks.
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  133. The US doesn't feel like it is winning. Even though our gasoline is much cheaper than your petrol, too many of us drive gas guzzlers, like you never see in the rest of the world, and are whining about $5/gal gas.
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  134. The Satmar in Bnei Brak and Mei Shaarim are no better.
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  135.  @dipakbose2677  And China.
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  136.  Thought Criminal  Untrue, Israel paid a premium to purchase the vaccines from the US. Perhaps other countries have less emphasis on health.
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  137.  @fungi708  Germany stole my family's property, and never returned one dunam.
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  138.  @davejohnston5759  So, are you holding out for the Israeli oral vaccine, since it causes the production of IgA? And, you're wrong, transmission is stopped when replication is stopped, which the mRNA vaccines can do. Do you honestly think, with this virus, the humoral immune system is the most important part of the adaptive immune system? All the vaccines induce T cell memory as well.
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  139. Why is the onus on Europe, to feed children that should not have been born. A little reproductive responsibility, and Somalia wouldn't have increased its population 4.5x in 50 years, and all the children could be fed.
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  140.  @zarathustra4649  Plenty of countries in Asia care as well.
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  141.  @flyinghorse1878  No, the appropriate response would be get vaccinated.
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  142. But, he's not a scientist, he is a journalist. And like so many journalists, he knows a lot less than people who actually have science degrees. They would do a lot better to bring on an expert, not someone who has only talked to experts, and gets a lot wrong.
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  143.  @nobilesnovushomo58  The most moral people I've known were atheists. While I'm a semi-religious person, my religion states that life begins at birth. This decision, which imposes the Catholic stupidity on my daughters and I, is unconstitutional, as it goes against the First Amendment.
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  144.  @GoodBread  Really? And yet the Green party German defense minister, said that the reason they would not give Ukraine military assistance was their own aggression in both world wars. If Germany links assistance to WWI and WWII, why is uneducated to say that?
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  145.  @BYOH4Z4RD  Have you seen the photos?
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  146. @D R Highland Park is not Chicago.
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  147. Except the plague was fatal much of the time, while monkeypox is not.
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  148. If they didn't care, they wouldn't have worn the armbands. But, with FIFA's draconian ruling, you can't expect a team to give up a chance of victory, that only comes every four years. FIFA should never have awarded this year's games to Qatar!
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  149. Since the WHO estimate is based upon excess mortalities, and India is notoriously bad at reporting cases, I'd trust the WHO.
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  150.  @unduloid  Israel fought off many much larger Arab armies.
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  151.  Pub Comrad  Ukraine has gas and oil fields too. Not as many as before, because Putin seized the fields in Crimea. Maybe that, as well as a warm water port, is why he invaded them.
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  152. This disease was first discovered in lab monkey, in Germany, in the 1950s.
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  153. Members of the IDF do not bring their weapons home any more. It is much harder to get a gun permit, in Israel, than in the US, and you must prove you need to defend yourself. As to no mass shootings, you clearly have ignored this year's news, where Arabs snuck in from PA controlled areas, with guns, and murdered many innocent people, in Bnei Brak, Tel Aviv, and Hadera. Those terror attacks took 19 innocent lives, just during Ramadan.
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  154.  @scottslotterbeck3796  Now it doesn't. But when I was a child, in Southern California, in the 1960s, it often did.
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  155. Why not? It worked for the parts of Yudah and Shomron, that Jordan invaded and occupied. Arafat told them, in 1962, "Call yourself Palestinian, and people will forget you aren't from here." And it worked.
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  156. False, when PCR tests are performed, the look for S protein dropout. When dropout occurs, they know they have many changes in the S protein, and sequence the sample.
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  157. It never is.
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  158. The people didn't get a real choice, since any really viable political opponent was killed or jailed.
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  159. The UN, the US, the UK all regard Crimea as part of Ukraine, and occupied by Russia. What Russia "recognizes" is moot. Russia should withdraw its troops from the sovereign nations of Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine.
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  160.  @wertcon  But everyone is not vaccinated. If they were, we wouldn't have to endure all these lockdowns, and hospitals would not be full.
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  161. So does overpopulation.
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  162.  @iraqpestcontrol  No, the US was for forming Kurdish country, at least within the area they lived in in Iraq. But, when there was a referendum, one Kurdish group was for it, and another was not, and the US gave the idea up.
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  163. Ester saved herself, and her people, without any help from a false prophet.
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  164. Stop victim blaming. The fault lies with one man, and one man only, the mad dictator treating Russia as his own personal piggy bank. Ukraine knows what being under Russian rule means: no control of one's life, no chance of a better life, possible starvation as your food is stolen, or transportation to Siberia.
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  165. Probably the same 30% who've not been vaccinated, are walking around without masks.
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  166. Sure, we'll get right on that, as soon as Brits learn to pronounce Los Angeles and New Orleans properly.
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  167.  @fedupwithbs1782  The Arabs that live in Israel, and are over 60 did, like all Israelis.
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  168. By allowing citizens to vote, without risking exposure to Covid-19.
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  169. Also in Japan, South Korea and the Czech Republic.
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  170. Same in NW Oregon. We are still having near daily heavy rain, with highs never hitting 70F (21C).
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  171. Both Turkey and Israel are good allies of Azerbaijan, not Armenia.
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  172. Why is it our problem? We limit our family size. They can too.
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  173. The Armenians are leaving voluntarily, because they know what they did to the Axeri people, that they ethnically cleansed from Karbakh. They are afraid they'll get their just deserts.
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  174.  @MrLibya101  FREE GREATER ISRAEL IL
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  175. At the beginning of the pandemic, many marveled at how effective China's strict lockdowns were, while we in countries, with individual freedoms, struggled to contain a virus transmitted by asymptomatic hosts. China laughed at how the US bungled testing and quarantine, and bragged of their superiority. Then, as countries began to roll out their vaccines, the Chinese bragged about how much better their inactivated virus vaccines were, because they contained more epitopes. But, it has turned out, that the mRNA vaccines are incredibly superior, in the adaptive immunity (both humoral and cellular) they induce, against a respiratory virus, and Europe and the US have the last laugh. As Covid-19 both mutates rapidly, and has animal reservoirs, we will not be able to eliminate it, as we've done with smallpox and rinderpest. We need to learn how to live with it, with yearly boosters. A zero Covid policy is impossible.
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  176. And yet, statistically, you are more likely to die from a gun, if you own a gun. If guns really made people safe, that would not be the case. Also, none of the proposed gun restrictions would take guns away from law abiding owners. But, they might make it less likely for deranged young men, to so easily obtain a weapon, to murder innocent people. If, for example, the background check, for the Uvalde shooter, had included his juvenile record, he could not have legally purchased a gun, as he had tortured to death helpless pets. Unless you are fending off an invading army, you don't need an extended magazine, to defend yourself. There is no logical reason those should be sold. Most guns used by criminals, were obtained through straw purchases. By federally limiting a person to two guns a year, straw purchases would be all but eliminated. All we need do is, institute federally laws like Canada has, requiring a PAL or RPAL license to buy a weapon, limiting the number of guns a person can purchase, and having adequate red flag laws.
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  177. There are no cameras, even still ones, allowed in US federal courts. State courts vary. Some states do allow the jurors to be shown.
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  178.  @kerryb2689  Great, during the daytime. Storage capacity isn't adequate, at this time. A constant energy source is needed.
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  179. Yes.
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  180.  @eddiegrimm9462  And now he's threatening to launch a nuclear missile, if sanctions aren't taken off, and if any more military aid goes to Ukraine. Putin is the abusive husband, just itching for an excuse to beat up his wife.
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  181. The area is part of Ukraine, but the DPR is Russian occupiers.
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  182.  @dreamtime3692  Just like the J&J vaccine, they transfect a virus (in this case baculovirus) with genetic material coding for part of the spike protein. But, in the J&J, they administer the virus (hence viral vector). With Novavax, they purify out the gene product (protein) after growing it in an insect cell culture. Novavax contains the protein, and a saponin based adjuvant.
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  183.  @andrewnielsen6498  In 2003, Russia captured the Transdniester region of Moldova. In 2008 they stole the South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions of Georgia. In 2014 they stole the Donbas and Crimea from Ukraine. While NATO has allowed nations to join their alliance, they have not expanded any of their countries into the territories of other countries, as Russia has done. How about Russia returns the parts of Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, that they are illegally occupying, and stops trying to dictate which countries may join NATO. After all we aren't trying to dictate which countries can join CSTO.
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  184. Cell phone towers aren't the problem that cryptocurrency is. Have you looked at how much energy that eats up.? You need to reassess what is using the most energy.
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  185. The only thing the US did wrong was send too much humanitarian aid in the past. Have fewer children, then you can feed them.
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  186. Yes, since climate change has begun to cause problems, there have been more wildfires. But, back in the 1960s and 1970s, wildfires only occurred, in Southern California, in late August and October, when there were Santa Ana winds. Look at the number of significant fires in 1977, not 2017, and you'll see this is new.
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  187. The Philistines were Greek, these are arabs, who invaded from Jordan.
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  188. Free the East Bank.
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  189. No it's not. This is not an STD, anyone can get it.
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  190. This disease has much lower mortality rate, and there is no such thing as long monkeypox. The lesions are painful, and you experience fever and malaise, due to your immune response.
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  191. He may claim to be another Peter the Great, but his brutality and desire for conquest, is more like Ivan the Terrible. He even pretended to give up power, putting a puppet in his own place, then reclaimed power, like Ivan. He certainly is not the modernizer Peter was.
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  192.  @kinngrimm  A grand sum of 32 people have died from nuclear power disasters throughout the years of its use. And yet, 3.3 million people die each year from pollution, and more than 150,000 die each year from the results of carbon driven climate change. Clearly, fossil fuel is much more dangerous than nuclear power.
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  193. She is married to Radosław Sikorski, who became Poland's defense minister, and lives in Poland.
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  194. The police only started firing live rounds after a police officer was fatally wounded by these thugs.
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  195.  @kayjr9795  Although this was really spread from a European fetish fair, that is not how it got into the human population. It is assumed it jumped into the human population from rodents, either that people ate, or that contaminated human food.
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  196.  @Dirgis-66  You really are ill informed. The animal reservoir is rodents. While this might have emerged through consumption of rodents, it is more likely that it came from rodents getting into human grain supplies. And being vegan would not have prevented such an emergence.
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  197. Wrong. This is not an STD, and gays aren't the only infected people. It was just first noticed in gays, and they are only routinely testing gay men. But, if straight people and children, with suspect symptoms are tested, it is found in them as well.
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  198. Let's hear how fluent you are in German first.
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  199. Because the solution is birth control. And no country can dictate that another have only a sustainable number of children.
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  200.  @johnwang9914  Where do you get your data? Most transmission occurs in the first 5 days after infection.
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  201. If they surrender, Russia will butcher each and every one. They've already proven they will kill civilians trying to flee in so-called safety corridors. They are not to be trusted.
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  202.  @infernal0099  Are you crazy? Israel is like Ukraine, attacked from by outsiders, who once colonized the land, and want it back from the native people.
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  203.  @TheShadow89090  Israel needs all of their Iron Domes. They are nearly constantly under missile fire from Gaza. You spend a couple of days in your mamad (shelter), watching your phone for messages from Homefront Command, hearing the distant boom of Kipat Barzel exploding incoming rockets, every month or so.
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  204. They are not impervious to fires that intense.
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  205. This didn't start as a protest. The pro-regime illegal aliens were having a celebration of Eritrean independence, and the anti-regime illegal aliens attacked them. The best course would be deport the lot, and let them hash it out in their own country.
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  206.  @luwam202  The problem isn't the elected Israeli government, but the corrupt, self-appointing oligarchs of the court. They blocked the government deporting illegal infiltrators. Then they blocked the government attempt to not have a march for Eritrean independence day, due to threats of violence.
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  207. He didn't get rid of it. It just moved over to mastodon.
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  208. Free the east bank of Arab occupation.
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  209. Russia isn't threatening to bomb Germany, if they send military aid. They are threatening Israel.
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  210. And if they are lost?
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  211. Free the east bank of Arab occupation.
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  212.  HunterBidensCrackPipe  How is preventing vaccination, and banning intelligent public health measures, like isolation and masking, so that many of your people die, being a good leader? Good leaders, regardless of political leanings, do their best to save the lives of the people they lead. Bolsanaro is not a good a good leader.
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  213. I'm currently in Kiryat Gat, Israel, where Intel has its fab plant. While rockets are heading towards west Lahish, from Gaza, all are being deflected by Kipat Bafrzel. And none have been aimed at Lihish. The Intel plant is quite safe. As to the danger of earthquakes, I grew up in California, and worked in the computer field there since 1981. Properly built buildings can withstand anything seismic activity can throw at it. Neither Si valley or Kiryat Gat are in any danger.
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  214. Do you realize that most attenuated virus vaccines have problems, because the virus quickly reverts to wildtype? That is why we went back to injecting polio vaccines, rather than giving them orally.
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  215. We have vaccinated and tested for influenza since 1945.
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  216. Even sadder for those who hate tyranny.
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  217. In 1970, the population of Somalia was 3.44 million, in 2020 it was 15.89 million. If a population more than quadruples in fifty years, how can they expect to feed all their children. Don't blame the rest of the world for Somalia's irresponsible reproduction.
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  218. The real solution is educate females. Then they'll start families later, and have less children, and local resources will not be overburdened.
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  219. @Kronin In Israel, 35% of drinking water is from desalination, in Australia it is 1%. Israel is a better example, and closer to Africa.
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  220. You think the fact we are charging more interest for $ loans isn't the reason the dollar is even with the euro? Look at the pound. The UK has higher interest rates, and the pound is worth more than the dollar. I remember when the pound and euro were at parity, both were worth twice as much as the dollar years past.
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  221. Most of this suffering is directly linked to the oppression of women, and the resulting overpopulation. This overpopulation puts pressure on local resources, which results in war. Educate women, and the population pressure drops, then there is less conflict.
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  222. So, we should kill 14 Arab civilians?
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  223.  @isla-misbs955  He's clearly another Irish racist. They love terrorists.
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  224. Not "one of", the oldest modern democracy.
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  225.  @stc3145  It was still a democracy, even if not all adults could participate. Compare that to what existed, in all other countries, at the time the US was founded. They were all monarchies.
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  226. The indigenous people are Azeri, not Armenian.
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  227. Erdogan follows Putin's strategy. Kill or incarcerate any political opponent, who could beat him. Kill or imprison any journalist who writes or speaks the truth. Use false flag events to rationalize genocide and authoritarianism. He accuses his critics of the crimes he commits. And when elections don't go his way, he has a do-over.
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  228.  @babblo1389  German nuclear powerplants had containment structures, unlike Chernobyl, and only one person died from Fukushima, which was on a fault line. More people die, in a single day, from climate change related disasters and pollution, than died in Chernobyl and Fukushima, I thought Germans were supposed to be so rational, and capable doing simple math. And France recycles its nuclear waste. Are French scientists that much better than German ones?
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  229. It's like the line from Mary Poppins; "What do you get when you feed the birds?", "More birds." The population of Somalia has increased 4.5x in 50 years.
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  230. The suspect is described as an ethnically Danish, 22 year old male, with a history of mental problems. There is no mention of a conversion to Islam, or of hate filled social media posts.
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  231.  @tomhenry897  Yes, there is a difference between the native people and the colonizers. The Azeris are a tolerant people, the Armenians are not.
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  232. The guy is undoing Ataturk's legacy of a secular, modern facing Turkey. For shame!
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  233.  @janestones323  Donbas and Lugansk are part of Ukraine. Why are Russian soldiers occupying Ukrainian land?
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  234. Cal Poly, in San Luis Obispo, has been advocating the use of drip irrigation (developed in Israel) since the 1960s. But, most farmers didn't want to expend the needed money, to do so.
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  235. If they hadn't listened to them, and stupidly mothballed their nuclear powerplants, they wouldn't need Russian fossil fuel.
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  236.  @napoleanbonaparte1701  False. Baculovirus is transfected with dsDNA for some of the spike protein, and that virus is grown in moth cells. The protein is purified out. There are no moth cell derivatives in the vaccine.
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  237.  @CHMichael  No, the Kurds fought ISIL. They missed their opportunity, while the US still controlled Iraq (2017). It looked like they'd get their own state, but one Kurdish group started fighting with another one, and the US shrugged and left.
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  238. You seem to forget that they US purposely did not go into Viet Kong territory, they would not cross the DMZ. And when US soldiers committed atrocities, they were court martialed. Russia is not fighting a limited war. And they both encourage and reward committing atrocities. Plus the terrain is completely different. These are not comparable wars.
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  239. That will make the LNG from Israel, via Egypt, seem more attractive. The shekel has fallen against the dollar as well.
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  240.  @lv3609  Of course the comparison is accurate, although it does not take into consideration of the deaths resulting from climate change, caused by pumping carbon into the atmosphere. That makes the risk of fossil fuels much worse than from nuclear waste.
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  241.  @greenpickle9606  They only did so because of bribery. Corruption must be wiped out.
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  242. I don't respect a culture, that never produced anything but cruelty and oil. They don't respect women, I sure don't respect them.
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  243. Because not knowing about a pandemic will stop it?
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  244. Red yeast rice (a natural statin) works better than lecithin, to control cholesterol.
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  245. Thanks for another reason, to keep that creep from regaining power.
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  246. Funny how healthy those kids looked. Not at all like starving children look. Sounds like another Armenian lie.
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  247.  @yingfengxuan  Because Iran is constantly threatening to destroy other countries, they should not have nuclear weapons. Because Iran is the source of most terrorist training, arming and funding, and is destabilizing the region, they should not have nuclear weapons. Because Iran is led by violent, religious zealots, and constantly imprison and execute people, for specious reasons, they should not have nuclear weapons. And when the JCPOA was in effect, they constantly forbid the required inspectors and turned off cameras. Because they are untrustworthy, they should not have nuclear weapons.
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  248. What do you base that on? With 52% of the vote counted, Bolsanaro is ahead. Even if all the remaining votes were for Lula, it would not equal 80%. If things stay like they are, neither candidate will have more than 50%, and there will be a runoff. Since Tebet is right wing, her votes would probably go to Bolsanaro. We'll see. It's going to be closer than the US election, and Bolsanaro looks like he'd pull off the coup, that Trump could not.
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  249. Maybe the next pope will be more enlightened, put an end to priests molesting children, let women be priests, and give his blessing to birth control.
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  250. Did any of those people look like they'd ever lacked food? Nope.
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  251.  @jojo-pk  You're wrong. Education for girls results in lower birth numbers, which results in a higher standard of living for all. You cannot raise people up, until they stop having more children than they can feed.
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  252.  @ALGERIANooooo-g8t  Do you mean the innocents killed in Israel, by Arabs falsely calling themselves Palestinians? Just ignore the 14 innocents killed in terrorist attacks, and pretend the victim is the aggressor.
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  253. Except nobody would trust Putin's forces to not shoot civilians, if they were to leave the factory. Russian forces have already proven they have no scruples or humanity. Some of those, who'll starve to death, are little children. While, Russia has already proven they don't care if Ukrainian children starve, during Holodomor, this will seal Russia's fate as international pariahs.
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  254.  @michealchimzi1685  How can it be the best, when all the twenty and thirty somethings, fleeing Russia, are causing a massive brain drain?
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  255. Rosanne Rosanadana lives. (Old SNL reference.)
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  256.  @erwinvalken154  You seem to have forgotten the Saudi 'attack' was in retaliation for the Houthis attacking the main Saudi airport, shopping centers and oil refineries. I'm not a big fan of the Saudis, but when your civilians and infrastructure is attacked by terrorists, you respond.
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  257. It is past time for the US to declare the coup a coup, and cut off funds. I'm sick of my tax dollars going to support tyrants.
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  258.  @kinga.t.242  The attackers were killing the native people. Tel Aviv was never Arab land.
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  259. לא
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  260.  @nicholasjohnson778  There never was a promise of stopping infection. The problem was talking heads, with no degree in virology or immunology, didn't understand what was meant by 97% effectiveness. The vaccines were always intended to reduce the risk of severe disease, mortality, and other complications. They still do that. There isn't a single vaccine for humans, that is sterilizing (prevents infection).
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  261.  @ljubisakupusovic7227  The oil the Saudis are buying from Russia, is heating oil, which is different from the oil they are exporting.
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  262. Sanctions aren't the only thing, that hurt the Russian economy. Russia suffering a real brain drain, and loss of labor, as all the young men who can, leave for any country but Russia. I was in Israel last month, and heard much more Russian spoken, than I ever heard there before. The shops are full of those, who only speak Russian. And that was before the real conscription efforts began.
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  263. Why? It would only make the overpopulation worse.
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  264. Yes, and while the UN condemns Israel, for daring to live in its own homeland, they say nothing about the ethnic cleansing of the Jordanian army, in 1948, or the continued war crimes the Arab colonizers commit against the native people. The UN is hardly unbiased or honest.
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  265.  @petedafook  The criticism was valid. Ever hear the Aesop fable about the north wind and the sun? It's message is "gentle persuasion is stronger than force". When activists act like willful, spoiled children, they send the message that whatever cause they are pushing is wrong. Clearly their motive is to act up, and be disruptive, and the climate crisis is just an excuse they use to justify intolerable behavior. If they really wanted change, they would write thoughtful op-ed pieces, which could actually persuade people, not throw temper tantrums.
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  266. And yet, the US State Dept. refuses to label this a coup, so that aid money will continue to be pumped out of US tax coffers.
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  267.  @kiyanhakim384  You're incorrect. Israelis aren't as racist as you are.
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  268.  @jdosvd  That's weird, because every legitimate study, done on the effectiveness of Ivermectin, shows it has no positive effect on Covid infections, but can be dangerous to the patient. You really should get your information from virologists, immunologists and clinicians, because the info you're spreading is false. There are some legitimate antivirals, that will soon be approved for use, but none of the antiparasiticals are useful against Covid.
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  269. Once a disease is as widely spread, as Covid-19, any calculation of R0 is meaningless.
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  270. Because it is.
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  271.  @patrisio3  Those athletes, testing positive, were from PCR tests, which only prove exposure, not infection. Positive PCR tests, after over 30 cycles, are meaningless, and they never report the CT value of those positive tests.
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  272.  @Blodhelm  Damn, you beat me to the same line I was going to use.
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  273. Israel is facing rocket attacks from Gaza and Syria, and needs its Iron Dome. There was an attack just yesterday.
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  274. There are no palestinians, only native Israelis and arab occupiers. And, Azerbaijan had help from Israel, they are allies.
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  275. If the UN says so, that makes it wrong.
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  276. Oregon, with a little over four million residents, has a $1.2 billion cannabis market.
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  277. You allah is just a bad copy of adonai. The original is still the best.
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  278. You mean the Arabs who are currently attacking innocent civilians, then claim they are wounded when their violence is stopped with tear gas?
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  279. Yeah, when he had his puppet in the White House, he relied on him to hold up weapons to Ukraine, and weaken NATO. He hoped that puppet would be reelected, so he could just walk into Ukraine, without resistance.
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  280.  @MrPontMeyer  The only ethnic cleansing in this area, was carried out by the Jordanian army in 1948. That is when arabs forced out the natives, and took over, and destroyed all the synagogues. Iran is now arming the terrorists that moved in.
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  281. While most Americans, including gun owners, want sensible federal gun restrictions, most Americans do not want free college, or socialized medicine.
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  282.  @andreqasparian1008  Stop telling lies, and people won't have to correct you. And correcting a liar is not trolling.
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  283. Airfare is really high now. And many flights are being cancelled, because there is a lack of pilots.
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  284.  @sytonicflux  You couldn't be more wrong, only centrist policies win elections in most of the country. The country's electorate is moderate, and does not want massive government spending programs. All the policies you list will lose far more voters than they would gain. The 'progressives' are a fractional minority, and turn off more citizens than they attract. Congress is evenly split, and yet they act as if they have a mandate. Any 'progressive' policy, enacted now, will be promptly removed as soon as Republicans retake both houses. A fate guaranteed by 'progressive' policies.
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  285. The very first line in the Bill of Rights prevents the imposition of a state religion, on the people. And yet, six Catholic justices have imposed their religious tenets on a majority noncatholic nation. What the Supreme Court did today in unconstitutional.
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  286.  @gary7427  Nor does the government pay for it today. The whole idea of government money is a red herring.
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  287. So far, they are about even. With the mRNA vaccines giving an initial 94% and 95% efficacy, and Novavax giving 96% efficacy, as measured by neutralizing Ab. In clinical trial, Novavax showed 90.4% efficacy in preventing symptomatic disease (NIH). Of course, the only variant they faced in trials was the Alpha variant.
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  288.  @lrrrruleroftheplanetomicro6881  Where'd you pull that figure out of? I prefer reputable sources.
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  289. And yet, a study by NIH, shows your chances of being shot are more that four times greater, if you have a gun during a confrontation. BTW Criminals get their guns through straw purchases. Yet every time legislation, to prevent straw purchases, is proposed, the gun lobby goes into action to prevent it. passing.
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  290. As long as there are fools, who refuse to get vaccinated, there will be a need for restrictions.
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  291. Free the east bank of Arab occupation.
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  292. It seems a fairly straight forward representation of the danger. Sorry if the truth bothers you.
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  293.  @JoseyStranded  Yes, right after the Ukrainians got rid of the Russian aligned oligarch installed with help from Paul Manafort, Yanukovych. I guess Yanukovych was the Slavic Trump.
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  294. The question is, would a man, wearing a similar outfit, face an identical sentence. If not, it is unjust,
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  295.  @tin-n-tan  Their enemies.
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  296. I thought so to, but have since learned any immunity we had acquired, has long since waned.
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  297. Since it was just an ordinary train station, not a military base, your point is pointless. Ukraine has nor been using human shields, Russia is purposely targeting civilians to cause terror.
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  298. That's only true if you only look at legal immigrants. The US has a lot more illegals and bogus "asylum" seekers.
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  299.  @z6445  Sure, Russia had no problem with Ukraine, as long as they were ruled by a Russian puppet. The minute their puppet left, Russia invaded.
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  300.  @taylarmarr475  The problem is the status of women. Girls don't get educated, but instead are married off at an early age. The few schools, built for girls, have been raided by Boko Haram, for slaves/brides. Parents are afraid to send their girls to school, and everyone remains rooted in the poverty that results from overpopulation.
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  301.  @mkhud50n  Nobody is using abortion as contraception. But contraception can fail. Abortion is actually a very simple, safe procedure. Most abortions are done pharmaceutically today. And even the medical procedure is much safer than birth, or even having a tooth extracted. There is no logical or ethical reason to prevent abortion. And there is a male involved in conception, but only the female must suffer. That is why anyone against the right to an abortion is sick and depraved.
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  302. Where are these illegals voting? You seem to be quite deluded. And as to freeing, those convicted on cannabis charges, good. I'm tired of tax dollars going to incarcerate them.
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  303. Why do you think owning a gun is against Danish law?
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  304. You don't understand what a vaccine does. It presents antigens (epitopes) to the immune system, so that they prepare for an infection. Your dubious story aside, statistical analysis proves that the unvaccinated are at least ten times more likely to become seriously ill, be hospitalized or die.
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  305.  @stevencole7331  A check for TSH is not part of a normal CBC, or blood chemistry panel. The suggestion to check if your endocrine system is functioning normally is a good one. If you did have Covid-19, prior to vaccination availability, you could be suffering Long Covid. Symptoms often include fatigue and brain fog. The other problem is, the virus seems to screw up your pancreatic signaling, causing more than a doubled risk of diabetes.
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  306. All but the 1% on top will continue to buy shoddy products from China, because they are still cheaper. And the slightly stronger dollar won't make up for the greatly increased cost of shipping.
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  307.  @bullpup1337  Actually the US would be better off consuming more California vegetables, and fewer Idaho potatoes, especially fried ones.
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  308.  @glennallen1984  So the Russians can pick them off? Their choice is to stay inside, or die instantly if they surrender.
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  309. I wish they made an oral vaccine, that could be put in the water supply. You realize that stopping transmission is difficult, no vaccine for humans does it. The adaptive immune system has to contract, or our blood would be antibiotic sludge.
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  310. And how does one show ID, when you are voting by mail? The whole show ID contrivance is merely a way to prevent mail-in voting. One verifies one's identity when one registers. Then a signature match is more than enough, to be sure the ballot is genuine. When I voted in California, in the 1970s and 1980s, there was a book of voters, at my assigned polling place. They looked my name up, and made sure my signature matched what was on file, before I was allowed to enter the voting booth. What is wrong with that? The same in Oregon, before we went all mail-in. The only result of mail-in voting is, a more secure voting system, with a high turnout.
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  311.  @Etheral101  The climate in western Oregon is a lot like the UK, overcast and rainy most of the year, with occasional winter snow. And, Oregon has also seen rising temperatures. Most of the older homes don't have A/C, because it just wasn't needed until this century. Thirty years ago, the temperature seldom rose to 100F, last summer we had weeks of 115F weather, and serious wildfires.
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  312. Got to have that rubber stamp.
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  313. Free the east bank of Arab occupation.
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  314.  @TheDivineCalls333  But it wasn't her crotch that was showing, Unless men are arrested for being shirtless in public, or wearing mesh tops, this law is sexist.
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  315. Because the division is not between North and South this time, it is urban vs. rural. Do you envision a network of liberal city-states embedded in a sea of rural rednecks? Rural areas need the money that the cities generate, and cities need the food grown in rural areas. If people don't want to live in the US, they could always move to where you live in the FSU.
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  316. Asia.
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  317.  @pikapi6993  Israel wouldn't hurt their good ally Azerbaijan, by siding with their enemy. There are a lot of ethnic Armenians, in Israel. Many are involved in criminal gangs, and are not good citizens. Israel knows better than side with Armenia.
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  318. Free the east bank of Arab occupation.
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  319.  @adamaprimo9023  No, dude, real experts, the ones with PhDs in virology or immunology, disagree with you.
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  320. India has proven that keeping girls from marrying, before 18, and continuing their education, reduces the number of children born into poverty.
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  321. Giving birth is worse.
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  322. Maybe, a country that wants to continue having slaves (which is how foreign workers are treated), treat women as less than human, and kill gay people, shouldn't be hosting an international game. Qatar knows the rest of the world is more enlightened. If they can't respect modern people, they shouldn't have Mondial.
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  323. And, Turkey is attacking Kurds inside Syria, after staging a false flag event, to justify further genocide.
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  324. That's very nice for you, but monkeypox is not an STD. It can be transmitted to you by a handshake, if the other person has a vesicle on their hand. It can also be transmitted by fomites, that have been contaminated by fluid from a vesicle. In this epidemic, straight people have been infected. Even little children have contracted the disease.
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  325. What an outdated stereotype. When I'm in Europe, I mostly eat vegetarian, unless the restaurant is kosher or halal, the only meat I'll buy is fish.
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  326. I do hope you're being facetious. There is only one religion, on the planet, currently killing, to force people to surrender to their dictates.
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  327.  @SheryAwan123  Yes Russia uses the same logic as the Arabs who attack the native people in Israel. Both Russia and the Arabs commit war crimes, and act like defending ones country is provocative.
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  328. When they wouldn't allow European inspectors? Really?
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  329. Wrong. This can infect you too.
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  330.  @DanA-nl5uo  So what are people who live in apartments to do? They can't generate their own electricity, from the sun. If only we all could afford a single family house, with a nice big roof, and we didn't buy anything made by energy reliant manufacturers. How much energy was used to produce your batteries, and what was its source?
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  331. I also hope we declare this a coup, as it obviously is, and stop sending them aid.
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  332. E.coli is, but not EEC. I worry more about Salmonella, or Vibrio Cholera.
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  333. No, but the virus damages the neural white matter, which is the reason for loss of sense of smell and brain fog.
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  334.  @alchemist7412  Perhaps that is why Intel has several IC fab plants in Northern Oregon, where water is plentiful.
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  335. No, most migration is due to local overpopulation outstripping resources.
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  336. The longer Russia occupies parts of Ukraine, the longer the problem will persist.
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  337. Why? Because Russia and Arabs are committing war crimes, and attacking civilians? So we should condemn the Arabs, who falsely claim to be Palestinian, as we condemn the Russians?
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  338. Another 'gift' from Europe.
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  339.  @babkubwa3608  They can resist lower heat brush fires, but not these intense wild fires. Also, they have been weakened by over a decade of drought, due to climate change.
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  340. The problems all started when they moved production from the Pacific Northwest, to the southeast. Guess which region has a better educated population.
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  341. No, it came from rodents.
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  342. If the vaccines the Chinese people received, were as effective as the mRNA vaccines, that might be true. But, as they evoke a very poor adaptive immune response, China is much worse off than the western world.
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  343. Prior to vaccines, city sizes had to be limited, because epidemics would run through a city, killing most inhabitants. All vaccines do is educate the immune system, so it can protect you. Since you don't like the increased life span, we have obtained through modern medicine, I hope you don't seek treatment if any illness befalls you.
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  344. Until they start treating girls better, educating them rather than selling them as brides at an early age, all the aid in the world won't help.
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  345. Their world is cruel because they have more children than they can feed. The US has been sending food to Africa for generations, and it only exacerbates the situation. Until they start treating their little girls like people, and educating them, rather than selling them at a young age, to breed even more starving children, the problem will persist.
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  346. They aren't really asylum seekers, but draft dodgers.
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  347. Free Greater Israel. IL
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  348. He's a professor. Maybe he's not native Brazilian.
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  349. And wait three thousand years, to get as big as these trees are?
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  350. It's not in Israel, it was detected in a few people returning from Botswana, at the airport and those people were made to quarantine.
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  351. How can we limit human population growth? Those who care, already have had fewer children.
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  352. No, DW is supporting democracy, with a small 'd'. It is not their fault the GOP is now against democracy.
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  353.  @crosstraffic187  But, what they are doing is more akin to setting the house on fire.
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  354. The innocents murdered by the Inquisition, numerous Crusades, and untold numbers of heretic and witch trials, give lie to that statement.
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  355. It's not like in the US. First, the vaccines employed in the US, are far more effective than the Chinese ones. Second, the Chinese did not vaccinate their most vulnerable people, the elderly. The logic behind this is convoluted and wrong.
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  356.  @hopepray1669  Nobody "created" the virus, it is an emergent zoonotic virus. And, preventing intelligent public health measure, so countless Brazilians suffered and died, is not smart.
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  357.  @riversidegardenradio9070  None of the NATO countries (excepting Turkey) target civilians. Israel goes out of its way, to not hit civilians, often at the expense of her own troops. Australia doesn't target civilians. In fact, there is no English speaking country, that does target civilians. Your whataboutism is truly pathetic. This was clearly Russia.
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  358.  @donaldfit7753  Since Russians have purposely killed civilians using so-called safe corridors, there is no choice. If any come out, the Russians will shoot them.
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  359. You invaded and are occupying someone else's land. The IDF is the resistance, not the terrorists.
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  360. True that we now can treat cases better, with MAb and antivirals, but deaths are on the uptick as well as cases. In other words, more people are dying again.
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  361. The polls have already begun to close. If they aren't already in line, they won't get to vote.
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  362. Same huge families.
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  363.  @patrickrankin4476  I lived in LA in 1976, and visited London the same year. What you wrote was a complete and utter lie. Sure, LA had a few bad days, and the air is better now, but it never burned my throat.
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  364.  @sevenspec  We have no idea if the waves are comparable, because China has stopped testing and reporting. Or do you really believe there are only 7K new cases in China, when the hospitals are so full, patients cannot get a bed?
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  365.  @AryanD422  Well, that was after Germany and Italy had already surrendered, and it was down to Japan vs US, Canada and Australia. So not still a world war.
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  366. Do you mean UNHRC?
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  367. Erdogan follows Putin's strategy. Kill or incarcerate any political opponent, who could beat him. Kill or imprison any journalist who writes or speaks the truth. Use false flag events to rationalize genocide and authoritarianism. He accuses his critics of the crimes he commits. And when elections don't go his way, he has a do-over.
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  368. Why should those countries, which limit their population size, so they don't outstrip their resources, continue giving food to countries which refuse to practice population control? Shame on people, who have children they know they cannot feed.
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  369. All the pundits, were certain Hilary Clinton would win in 2016. Never trust the far left to do the intelligent thing, and vote for the center left candidate, rather than the far right candidate, out of spite.
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  370. I grew up in Southern California, and just in my lifetime, I've seen the highest temperatures, of my coastal birthplace go from 85F to 120F. The climate has changed. Wildfire season only used to be in late autumn, when the Santa Anas blew. Now, it is year round. And this drought has lasted for a couple of decades. We used to only get a year of drought, then a couple of rainy years. You know nothing.
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  371. What "real risks" of a booster? I've been reading all the scientific literature, and while young people sometimes have fleeting cardiac problems, they are transitory, and you are beyond the age to worry. Plus, those negative side effects were from the initial vaccine dose, not the booster. Stop spreading falsehoods. At your age, you're a fool to avoid a booster. I'm in your age group, and had Covid (orginal strain), Pfizer, Pfizer, Moderna, Moderna, and neither the vaccines or boosters, were as bad as the actual disease.
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  372. No, the correct comparison is: would a man wearing a transparent shirt receive the same sentence? Women's breasts have a function, feeding their babies, while men's have no good reason to be exposed.
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  373. No, this is a return to young women dying, because they cannot get a safe abortions. No lives will be saved, and an embryo is not alive, but many innocent young women will die horribly.
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  374. They aren't from Morocco. They were just passing through, on their way to Europe.
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  375. Are these young people really rioting for better pensions? Or is their unquiet due to France losing some of the things that made her livable, because they are in the EU, like post office banking?
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  376. illegal
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  377.  @markonikolic7957  No, these are illegal aliens, that should have been deported. Sadly the corrupt courts blocked the deportation of these violent thugs, who infiltrated to avoid the draft, and they have taken over south Tel Aviv, driving non-Africans out.
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  378. I would be very happy if my country gave Africans all the birth control they need. And that's all. The US has been sending humanitarian aid to Africa since before women could vote. And what has it accomplished? Bigger populations requiring even more aid.
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  379. Wasn't that in DC, not Washington? Washington is a state on the west coast.
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  380. You just figured that out now? I've been saying Africa and the Near East would be impacted, since Russia was building up troops on the border.
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  381. California is fighting its own fires. Because they happen all the time, California wildfires aren't news.
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  382. No, it has more to do with overpopulation. If they would educated their girls, rather than marrying them off as children, they wouldn't have more offspring than they can care for.
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  383. I'm sorry, but why can't you learn from our (US) mistakes? Didn't you see how trickle down economics ruined the US economy, and led to greater wealth disparity?
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  384. It isn't. They are only finding it in gay men, because they are only testing gay men. But, when you test anyone with this disease's symptoms, you find it can be in anybody.
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  385. No, that is not safe. Salmonella can survive that temperature. And prions can survive an autoclave. Heat over 70C (158F) is required to kill Covid-19.
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  386. Would it not be rich if the Chechen mercenaries, that Putin is sending in to attack the Wagner group, remembered the brutal way Putin quelled their rebellion, and joined forces with Wagner for a promise to free Chechnya.
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  387. I never expected it in the US, either, and then the Proud Boys thought they could keep Trump in power.
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  388. Do you can duplicity winning? Pakistan pretended to be an ally, while hiding and funding the enemy. This is huda, not real winning, real conniving.
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  389.  @peoplewatchingtoday7231  Of course the phrase "printing money" really just means creating money where none existed before, whether physical bills or just a digital representation, the US government just created more money out of thin air. Creating more unsecured money, and pushing it into the monetary system, always produces inflation. We saw it in Greece, in Israel, in Italy, when the government really did just print money. The US was not alone in paying out newly created money. Most of Europe did the same, That is why all these countries are experiencing severe inflation.
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  390. @N Fels Don't you think Spain has considered this, and decided the losses were greater than the gains?
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  391.  @johnpablo2772  No, the euro is rising against the pound. It is not that the euro fell. It is that, due to a rise in the prime lending rate, the dollar has risen against other currencies.
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  392. And lack of education. V. cholera is easily killed by boiling.
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  393. The car seat, containing a small body, covered with a plastic sheet, was what did me in.
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  394. Possibly. It is spread by fomites, that came in contact with infectious vesicles, and vesicles are primarily on the hands and face.
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  395. What you claim is the opposite of the truth. If he's been anything but ethnically Danish, it would take weeks, to learn his ethnicity, if ever.
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  396. Even if the left has the best policies (and that's a big if), they lose support from working class people, when they talk down to them, and call them ignorant. When people see crimes being committed by new immigrants, especially those who came illegally, and their concerns are dismissed as bigotry, leaders lose support. It doesn't matter who is correct, concerns should not be denigrated, but addressed. Dismissing problems, the populace faces, only leads to the rise of populist demagogues.
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  397. If the water is contaminated, washing food in it spreads the bacteria. Instead only use water that has been boiled, for drinking, food prep or teeth brushing.
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  398.  @tyronevaldez-kruger5313  So, you don't consider a federal courthouse, or a police station, a government building? In my city, both of those were attacked, and the BLM/antifa mob threatened to hang the mayor.
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  399. Human overpopulation has a greater impact than being omnivores.
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  400. At least the German news is reporting on this terror attack on innocent civilians. None of the mainstream US channels have anything, not MSNBC, CNN or Fox.
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  401. We hear too much from the Russian trolls, with their firehose of falsehoods.
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  402. How many pregnancies have you endured? This is a very evil step backwards.
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  403. So, the 6-3 conservative SCOTUS is your fault. If I had voted as stupidly, as you did, I'd keep that shame to myself.
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  404. If you think about it, homosexuals are the people least affected by the overturning of Roe v Wade. This is a horrible blow to straight women, and the men who love them. Can we just concentrate of the damage actually done, and how to counter it? Why do gays have to make everything about them?
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  405.  @mourka01  But, he didn't win because the majority wanted him, but because he'd eliminated those they did want. Erdogan follows Putin's strategy. Kill or incarcerate any political opponent, who could beat him. Kill or imprison any journalist who writes or speaks the truth. Use false flag events to rationalize genocide and authoritarianism. He accuses his critics of the crimes he commits. And when elections don't go his way, he has a do-over.
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  406.  @rayj.4527  Oh sure, over 1.5K new cases, and 54 deaths yesterday, is very low.
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  407. Free the east bank of Arab occupation.
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  408.  @migsvensurfing6310  No, a country's living standards are directly linked to the status of women. Those countries that educate girls, all the way through college, have lower birth rates, and standards go up. It is education of females that lower the birthrate. As long as little girls are married off to old men, to begin spitting out children around age 12, poverty and starvation will continue.
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  409. At least anti-parasiticals, that so many antivaxxers seem fond of, are useful against trypanosomiasis.
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  410. Joe Biden made them have more children than they can feed? Get real.
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  411.  @callebcheah4571  "Zeal to destroy"? Why are you acting like a virus has emotions? SARS was different because you could easily discern who was infected, and could transmit the virus. That is the normal case with any "deadly virus". And an epidemic is not a tantrum, and epidemics don't have a time limit. Nor is there any evidence the virus has become less virulent, only that in countries with good vaccines, there is greater immunity, thus fewer susceptible hosts.
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  412. @שן גםל Why do you use Hebrew for your name, when it is clear you don't understand it? The letter 'ם' only comes at the end of a word.
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  413. So, you think Europe should stop relying on US money to pay for your defense? Maybe we should stop wasting our tax dollars keeping you safe, and instead spend it on our own people.
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