Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "" video.

@frankartanis1290 it is a complicated problem. But during the entire time the only discussion was the virus, nothing else. Not talks about increase depression, increase in substance abuse. So now is it multiple variables involved or just the virus?
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@frankartanis1290 a vaccine exists in 2021 but there are more deaths. That makes no sense. The only explanation is that the vaccine does not work.
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Couple things. One, many cancer deaths occurred because of lack of treatment due to hospitals not taking on cancer patients over covid patients. Next, a lot of cancer is caused by environmental situation. Besides that, we don't ban cancer causing life style choices like smoking.
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Living in fear and giving up freedoms is not living. This nation was founded with people willing to step in front of one of the strongest armies at the time to gain freedom. They put themselves at risk. If you are constantly scared of covid and will give up freedom because of it that is really pathetic.
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@DrEcho one, owning a gun is a part of my freedom and rights. Next, there is a difference between me, on my own, taking pre-cautions as opposed to allowing government to do it for me. With guns, we have police. There is security where I live. I still own a gun because I know that security is not guaranteed. I am not forced to buy one though. So there is a clear difference between me deciding to own a gun and others allowing government to strip them of their lives for "safety".
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@DrEcho laws are created via legislation and with limits. Not like these mandates from some power hungry governor or bureaucrats. Again, with guns, it is my choice. I am not forced to own on. I have the freedom to own one and protect myself. It is not living in fear. In fact, it opens up new possibilities for me, it does not restrict me. .
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@DrEcho it isn't like a vaccine mandate where you are told the virus is dangerous, so you must take this vaccine or lose your job. It is my choice to own a gun. If I don't, nothing really changes in my life.
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@DrEcho drinking and driving laws were created via legislation, not through bureaucrats, learn the difference. Do you know how laws are made? Also, with that, there are alternatives. Walking, getting a cab, having a DD, etc. The covid mandates are saying "follow these mandates or you can't interact with society" giving no alternatives. You can still drink and interact with society. Keep brining them bud. When you don't even know how laws are created this shows this will be easy.
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@DrEcho the vaccine mandates being pushed. deBlasio to expanded his. The mask mandates. The lockdowns early on. The testing mandates. Which one of them were created via legislation? Sad that so many are just willing to obey politicians and government entities without question. OSHA, an organization people can't push for create the vaccine mandate. Essentially, the people had no say.
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@nikm5628 so no need for a discussion? That is why we are in this mess, people do not want talk. Here, do you find it a problem that OSHA creates a vaccine mandate for employers that can cost people jobs and people their businesses? You can't vote for OSHA, it is essentially ran by one man, Biden. Do you want to create that power for one person?
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@nikm5628 I don't ignore facts, I expand on them, especially when they are given to me in a deceptive way. And with facts, they are essentially the bottom of Bloom's Taxonomy. The talks of people saying "bring the facts" or "the facts say" is deceptive. You can two experts the same set of facts and get two different conclusions. Consider covid where Fauci and the CDC draw their conclusions bur Dr. Atlas and Dr. Makary, two other experts in the medical field, have different conclusions.
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@1369Stiles who says I carry a gun all the time? Most of the time I don't as places I go don't allow them. You assume I carry a gun all the time. I have it in my home if a break in happens, which are rare in my city by the way. But I don't carry all the time. And in many ways not having a fire arm is not restricting you, I agree. But there is an argument that if you have one you will be safer, but there is no one forcing you to have one. With vaccines and masks the issue is that they are being mandated, and if you don't follow you can't interact with society in any way. It would be the same in saying if you don't own a carry a gun you can't interact with society. Understand?
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@nikm5628 to add on facts, saying "I got facts" is actually a shallow argument. And you assuming I ignore facts is also shallow. Just because I interpret them a different way does not mean I ignore them. Take covid deaths, for example. People just give me a number, which is a fact. I counter by adding more elements to it such as age, survival probability based on age, increase in depression from lockdowns weakening immune systems, etc. What I add are also facts. And based on the facts I add I don't ignore the fact of covid related deaths, I just see them in a different way.
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@justorion1098 no, you are living in fear by allowing these mandates to happen. Or at the very least you can't think for yourself and want others to do it for you as you are too scared to live and think independently. You quickly just obey certain entities in government without question. As for smart health policy and practices, define what is "smart". You say making the pandemic last longer, really, what pandemic? Many parts of the nation are wide open with no masks. If the virus is really that dangerous those areas would be seeing very high death rates. Statistically they aren't.
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@justorion1098 what misinformation about the vaccine and the virus? Again, many parts of the nation are wide open. Take FL, for example. If the virus is really that dangerous FL would not only be at the top of deaths per capita, but they will be by a wide margin. That is not the case.
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@justorion1098 1. You are allowing vaccine mandates by support the actions the left have been taking with this virus. Now there is a push for vaccine mandates and the left cheer it on. Why? If you are vaccinated you are safe. The issue is what it always have been, we are not going to submit our way out of this. This only ends when we just stop. Many parts of the nation have and are doing fine. 2. If you want to wear a mask and take a vaccine that is fine. The second you support a mandate that others do it, or you follow the government mandates without question, you are living in fear. 3. Uh, Biden is pushing a vaccine mandate. The courts are blocking it, but there is a strong push for a nationwide one. It is going to snowball. Biden first said there should be no mandate. Now he is pushing for one. Where does it end? And I am vaccinated because my employer mandated it as they have federal contracts, thus, a federal mandate when the company created that policy existed at the time until the courts blocked it. So yes, there is a federal mandate in many ways. And if you think it is going to stop you are wrong. Smart polices: 1. If you are vaccinated you are safe by the logic of it. Those that aren't are willing to take the risk themselves. Smart policy will to ensure there are enough vaccines for those who want. For those that don't, let them be and distribute the vaccine to developing nations. Also, after infection you have long term natural immunity. Smart policy will tell them that so they can hold off and we can distribute the vaccine worldwide to those that need it. Do you agree with any of that? Or do you just want to vaccinated people left and right with zero thought? 2. You can't waive IP rights. That sets a dangerous ground in future drug development. 3. Nothing is free. Home testing should be expanded, but not for all. 4. Nothing supports that masks do anything. It is all theatrics 5. You can't just pay people to stay home, that ruins the economy. People need to produce. You can't consume what you can't produce. The money you give them to stay home is worthless if people are not producing. " but what is the conservative concept of smart health policy? Do nothing and let the virus explode all over the country?" Nope, it is that you get a group of experts together in economics, psychology, virology, etc. in both government and independents to develop a route. Not just listen to government bureaucrats on a power trip. For example, the lockdowns led to increase rates of depression and substance abuse do to mental illness spiking. There are legit arguments to be made that the lockdowns caused more problems. I will add on this in another comment. "You said "If the virus is really that dangerous those areas would be seeing very high death rates. Statistically they aren't." You are completely wrong. The areas where people are less vaccinated are having much higher death rates" There is zero evidence of that. As I said, if the virus was so dangerous states like TX and FL would be near the top by a wide margin. They aren't. When you look at all 50 states across the board, and start factoring in multiple variables there is no significant differences between the states. This is a major problem with the left, they focus on just one variable, the virus while ignoring a plethora of evidence such as age, obesity rates, depression reducing immune systems, culture, etc. "You ask me what misinformation you are spreading. You pretty clearly implied that the pandemic is over when you asked "what pandemic?" That is misinformation. The pandemic is still going on and more people have died in 2021 than 2020 in the US. " People die all the time. Objectively almost all died with covid would have been dead in the same timeframe to begin with. For example, 1% of the nation live in nursing homes but they make up 40% of covid related deaths. A UCSF report from a few years ago states that 50% of new nursing home patients die in 6 months and the average lifespan is a year. Fact is that those who died with covid were at high risk of death to begin with. Without covid they may have lived another month or two, maybe? So here we are destroying lives and the economy to "save" people who were going to die in a short time anyways. That is not a success. " You cite Florida as your example of why the virus isn't a big deal, but Florida is #10 in per capita deaths out of all of the states," Not number 1. As I said, if covid was so dangerous FL will be near the top and by a wide margin. As for MS and AL being number one, for a long time NJ and NY were. What happened was they were hit first, it spread, and immunity set in. MS and AL caught up later as the virus is going to spread no matter what we do. Sweden was top 10 in deaths per capita at the beginning as they never shut down. Now they keep dropping in the list. While European nation, and even Nordic nations are seeing a spike, Sweden is not. Why? Immunity set in. The virus is going to spread, period. We should just let it spread. Shutting down destroyed out economy so now we have two problems, the virus and a bad economy.
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@justorion1098 to add, here is a big problem on the left. All the focus on is the virus, no other variables. For example, how many people died due to a weaker immune system from not being able to go to the gym and depression going up? That weakens the immune system. So how many, in normal times, would have been healthy after infection but because of the lockdowns became very sick and even died? Or with substance abuse going up, how many people did that kill? How many people were abusing drugs and alcohol making them less healthy and when infected with covid became very sick and died? Have you ever thought that what we did and what we continue to do is much worse than the virus? Or on MS and AL, they have a large black population where blacks have a higher risk of heart disease due to genetic issues. That is a fact as well. Do you factor that in for their high death rate? And also on "what pandemic", again, if it was that dangerous FL and TX would be near the top by a wide margin. They arent.
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@justorion1098 tell me this, why do you only look at one variable which is just the virus? Why do you ignore everything else?
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@justorion1098 so no response I see. Again, why do you only look one variable which is the virus? Why do you ignore everything else?
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Being fair they do have a choice not to have sex.
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Because of covid there was less cancer treatment. Point being, even with M4A healthcare is limited.
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@mackjrbell7828 Mike is wrong on the fact that this is a "pandemic". There are many parts of the nation that are wide open, no masks, no social distancing and are doing fine. If this virus was really that dangerous those areas would be seeing high death rates. They aren't.
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@mackjrbell7828 also, does Mike have a medical degree? No. He actually dropped out of grad school. And you bring up a death total, one of the most anti science things you can do is bring up a number with zero context. I am an actual scientists. In one of my papers I was publishing I gave a number. The reviewer responded back saying to give a physical interpretation of the number, as in not just give it but explain it physically. So in order to get my paper published I had to do that. And you bring up data, I can run through the data and destroy Mike one on one if needed as he can't understand it.
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She won't, she is too radical and many of her own party don't agree with her. It is the same as people like AOC and Bernie or even Pelosi. Well liked in their area, but nation wide they won't do well.
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But there is a vaccine in 2021. Mike saying the delta variant was here is admitting the vaccine does not work.
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@frankartanis1290 a vaccine exists but now there are more deaths? Explain that
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@SaraphDarklaw ah the old "facts" statement. Facts are near the bottom of Blooms Taxonomy. You can give two experts the same set of facts and get two different conclusions. I don't ignore facts. I just give a different interpretation of them. And you can't counter that so you fall to I ignored them when I don't
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@SaraphDarklaw talking points are short. I give long detailed explanation of my thoughts. Sorry you can't counter them
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@frankartanis1290 my explanation? Differences in how countries report covid deaths. There is no uniformed standard.
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Mike dropped out of his PhD program. That should say something
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Well, we don't ban certain life styles like smoking because of cancer.
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Mike failed grad school
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There is a point. Someone like AOC complains about climate change but flies from NY to DC as opposed to taking the train. It is another example from the left telling other people to do things but the left do nothing themselves.
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@captaindave88 it doesn't matter, lead by example. Basically what you are saying is "well, everyone else does it so why should I change". Not a good way to approach an issue.
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@jellybean11610 I live in an area where I walk almost everywhere. I drive only when needed. My company gives me a car they demand I put 7500 miles on it a year even though they are saying they are going carbon free come 2030. No electric car for me. As for conversations, it is the left that just calls others stupid and refuse to have one. Take climate change and how the left are saying the world is going to end in X amount of years. You want to know who opposes such statements on climate change? People like Myles Allen and Mike Hulme as they feel it does nothing to progress the issue
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@jellybean11610 to add, yes, progressives do bring up issues we should talk about. But when someone gives an opposing viewpoint of any kind progressives just argue back with smears and name calling. Take covid. Mike just sits there and calls anyone who has an opposing viewpoint on the covid issue as idiots or morons. I have opposing viewpoints based on studies I read and my personal experience. To just dismiss me is insulting. It is also a big reason why Trump was so popular, people are sick of the liberal elites and leftists just dismissing people.
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@captaindave88 we are not limited on time. Saying such points are dangerous. Myles Allen even commented on that along with Mike Hulme where the latter wrote a paper in Nature Climate Change about the dangers of setting a climate change deadline. Doing so one, turns people off, and two, create even more skeptics out of people. When AOC said we only have 10 years to act, that is dangerous. Because in 10 years things are fine people will stop listening to issue and it never gets solves. And the right do feel climate change is an issue, but they also feel we can't be destroying our economy in trying to solve it.
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@jellybean11610 you give red states a bad light. I live in a red state and it is great. People help out each other. In fact, on the issue of climate change they are very progressive. How are vaccine mandates push but the president good? Should one man have all that power? And people are refusing to get vaccinated do to how radical the left acted on covid. It is the same with climate change. Setting a deadline of 10 years to act is dangerous, because in 10 years when nothing happens skeptics become even more skeptical, and more skeptics are created and the issue does not get solved. When the left freaked out about covid, and we were pull in every direction with confusing standards, many the democrats did not follow, and in the end nothing major happened, people tuned out.
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@jellybean11610 you want to work together here 1. Stop being radical and fear mongering all the time 2. Here other people's concerns and respect them as opposed to dismissing them
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@jellybean11610 they oppose the talking point of climate change deadlines. They are climate scientists that support taking actions on climate change. Myles Allen works for the IPCC that was one of the authors of that report people cite saying we had X amount of years to act. Here is what he said in an article from The Conversation entitled " Why protesters should be wary of ‘12 years to climate breakdown’ rhetoric" "My biggest concern is with the much-touted line that “the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says we have 12 years” before triggering an irreversible slide into climate chaos. Slogan writers are vague on whether they mean climate chaos will happen after 12 years, or if we have 12 years to avert it. But both are misleading."
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@jellybean11610 Hulme has a great book entitled "Why We Disagree About Climate Change"
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Yeah, hard to do that bud.
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Freedom of speech bud, and freedom that almost anyone can run for office.
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Nothing supports that masks work. There lies the problem.
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@nikm5628 what research? I find points like you saying all to common. People will say "studies say" or "the research" but provide nothing to support such claims.
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The cancer point is that many did not receive cancer treatment due to covid. And it is odd that more have died with covid in 2021 than 2020. In 2021 a vaccine exists, there were people wearing masks more often. The healthcare system was ready. Saying the delta variant is the reason is admitting nothing, including the vaccine, works.
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